A robust wireless transmission control protocol to cope with channel errors in a long round-trip delay environment

Extending the TCP (transmission control protocol) to the wireless domain is a hot research topic at the present time. It is also implemented in a long round-trip delay, e.g., satellite channel. Performance degradation due to the TCP's misinterpretation of corruption loss as congestion loss has...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Shu-wen Teng, Jin-Fu Chang
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Computer networks
Delay
Electronic mail
Error correction
Low earth orbit satellites
Optical fibers
Robust control
Satellite broadcasting
TCPIP
Wireless application protocol
Online Access:Request full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:Extending the TCP (transmission control protocol) to the wireless domain is a hot research topic at the present time. It is also implemented in a long round-trip delay, e.g., satellite channel. Performance degradation due to the TCP's misinterpretation of corruption loss as congestion loss has been reported in the literature. This paper proposes a threshold-based TCP to prevent it from reacting to cell losses due to corruption, that is, channel error. It is demonstrated through numerical experiments that the proposed scheme can effectively mitigate the negative impact of wireless channel errors on the performance of TCP.
DOI:10.1109/ICTEL.2003.1191495