Transport protocol performance over BCMP

Author

Georganopoulos, Nikos ; Aghvami, Hamid A.

Author_Institution

Centre for Telecommun. Res., King´´s Coll., London, UK

Volume

3

fYear

2003

fDate

6-9 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

2053

Abstract

Wireless access networks in the future will be IP-based with IP mechanisms delivering packets to mobile hosts attached to the edge of the network. Standard transport protocols like UDP and TCP are designed to deliver data across fixed wired networks. Mobility of users will result in changing the terminal´s point of attachment to the network, and a mobility management protocol will be responsible for delivering packets at the correct location, by tracking the user movement. The use of such a protocol is essential to the performance of transport layer mechanisms and relevant applications running on top. In this paper the performance of UDP and TCP transport protocols is evaluated, in a wireless IP access network running the BCMP local mobility management protocol. UDP and various TCP variants are employed and their suitability in such a dynamic environment is tested.

Keywords

IP networks; radio access networks; telecommunication network management; transport protocols; BCMP network; IP networks; TCP; UDP; mobile host; mobility management protocol; packet delivery; transmission control protocol; transport protocol; user datagram protocol; wired networks; wireless access networks; Access protocols; Educational institutions; IP networks; Mobile radio mobility management; Quality of service; TCPIP; Tracking; Transport protocols; Wireless application protocol; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2003. VTC 2003-Fall. 2003 IEEE 58th

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7954-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECF.2003.1285386

Filename

1285386