Understanding TCP's behavior over wireless links
Lefevre, F.
Vivier, G.
Motorola Labs., Centre de Recherche de Motorola, Paris;
This paper appears in: Communications and Vehicular Technology, 2000. SCVT-200. Symposium on
Publication Date: 2000
On page(s): 123-130
Location: Leuven, Belgium
ISBN: 0-7803-6684-0
References Cited: 18
INSPEC Accession Number: 6978185
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/SCVT.2000.923350
Current Version Published: 2002-08-06
Abstract
During the last few years, both Internet and mobile systems have
grown extremely fast. It is natural that nowadays these two worlds are
converging. Adaptation of protocols designed for the wired Internet,
such as TCP, to wireless specificity and conversely, design of wireless
systems adapted to the Internet protocol stack is an area of wide
interest. Many materials can be found in the research community but are
often unreachable for the ordinary reader. This paper tries to explain
basic TCP functionality and its behaviour over mobile cellular systems.
Simulations highlight the spurious effects of the congestion avoidance
algorithm of TCP, unwisely triggered by the bad quality of the wireless
link. Then a survey and an analysis of the main propositions to improve
TCP behaviour over wireless is given, to finally conclude that
unfortunately there is no miraculous solution
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