DocumentCode
414722
Title
Performance improvement of TCP with delayed ACKs in IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs
Author
Kherani, Arzad A. ; Shorey, Rajeev
Author_Institution
INRIA, France
Volume
3
fYear
2004
fDate
21-25 March 2004
Firstpage
1703
Abstract
We use a Markov renewal reward approach to analyse the throughput achieved by a TCP connection spanning a multi-hop wireless network that uses the IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol. The significance of the paper is twofold: (a) the method used in the paper is simple and can be used for performance evaluation of wireless LANs in general, and, (b) the analytical results suggest that there can be a significant gain in TCP performance due to ACK thinning if the TCP receiver uses the delayed acknowledgement option of TCP. This is in accordance with other simulation based studies on similar lines.
Keywords
Markov processes; access protocols; transport protocols; wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs; MAC protocol; Markov renewal reward approach; TCP; delayed ACK thinning; distributed coordination function; multihop wireless network; Analytical models; Computer science; Delay; Local area networks; Performance analysis; Protocols; Spread spectrum communication; Throughput; Wireless LAN; Wireless networks;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 2004. WCNC. 2004 IEEE
ISSN
1525-3511
Print_ISBN
0-7803-8344-3
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/WCNC.2004.1311809
Filename
1311809
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