Interactions of TCP and radio link ARQ protocol

Author

Bai, Yong ; Ogielski, Andy T. ; Wu, Gang

Author_Institution

Wireless Inf. Network Lab., Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ, USA

Volume

3

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

1710

Abstract

Two distinct error and flow control schemes may be simultaneously involved in wireless Internet networks. One is an end-to-end transport protocol, TCP, which provides reliable packet delivery with flow and congestion control, and the other is a radio link ARQ protocol which provides radio link layer frame error recovery. In this paper, we investigate interactions between these two separate error control mechanisms by simulating TCP Reno over IS-707, a radio link ARQ protocol standard for spread spectrum digital cellular systems. We show the effects of TCP sliding window size to the overall system performance under a variety of radio link scenarios, and present the beneficial effects of longer persistence in radio link frame error recovery for best-effort bulk data applications

Keywords

Internet; automatic repeat request; cellular radio; digital radio; packet radio networks; radio links; telecommunication congestion control; transport protocols; IS-707; TCP; TCP Reno; TCP sliding window size; best-effort bulk data applications; congestion control; end-to-end transport protocol; error control mechanisms; flow control; radio link ARQ protocol; radio link frame error recovery; radio link layer frame error recovery; spread spectrum digital cellular systems; wireless Internet networks; Automatic repeat request; Electronic mail; Error correction; Forward error correction; Internet; Radio control; Radio link; System performance; Throughput; Transport protocols;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 1999. VTC 1999 - Fall. IEEE VTS 50th

Conference_Location

Amsterdam

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5435-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECF.1999.801596

Filename

801596