CONGESTION CONTROL WITH DYNAMIC THRESHOLD ADAPTATION AND CROSS-LAYER RESPONSE FOR TCP OVER IEEE 80.11 WIRELESS NETWORKS

Rung-Shiang Cheng, Der-Jiunn Deng, Han-Chieh Chao

2011

Abstract

Wireless technologies provide mobile access and enable rapid and cost-effective network deployment. But a wireless link is generally accompanied by high interference, transmission errors and a varying latency. The erratic packet losses usually lead to a curbing of the flow of segments on the TCP connection, and thus limit TCP performance. This paper presents a threshold control mechanism with cross-layer response approach for improving TCP Vegas performance in IEEE 802.11 wireless networks. By making slight modifications to the legacy IEEE 802.11 MAC and TCP, the numerical results reveal that the proposed scheme provides a significant improvement in TCP performance under IEEE 802.11 wireless environments.

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Cheng R., Deng D. and Chao H. (2011). CONGESTION CONTROL WITH DYNAMIC THRESHOLD ADAPTATION AND CROSS-LAYER RESPONSE FOR TCP OVER IEEE 80.11 WIRELESS NETWORKS . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Wireless Information Networks and Systems - Volume 1: WINSYS, (ICETE 2011) ISBN 978-989-8425-73-7, pages 95-100. DOI: 10.5220/0003677100950100


in Bibtex Style

@conference{winsys11,
author={Rung-Shiang Cheng and Der-Jiunn Deng and Han-Chieh Chao},
title={CONGESTION CONTROL WITH DYNAMIC THRESHOLD ADAPTATION AND CROSS-LAYER RESPONSE FOR TCP OVER IEEE 80.11 WIRELESS NETWORKS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Wireless Information Networks and Systems - Volume 1: WINSYS, (ICETE 2011)},
year={2011},
pages={95-100},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003677100950100},
isbn={978-989-8425-73-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Wireless Information Networks and Systems - Volume 1: WINSYS, (ICETE 2011)
TI - CONGESTION CONTROL WITH DYNAMIC THRESHOLD ADAPTATION AND CROSS-LAYER RESPONSE FOR TCP OVER IEEE 80.11 WIRELESS NETWORKS
SN - 978-989-8425-73-7
AU - Cheng R.
AU - Deng D.
AU - Chao H.
PY - 2011
SP - 95
EP - 100
DO - 10.5220/0003677100950100