A review of congestion control mechanisms for wireless networks

The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is a connection-oriented transport protocol that provides a reliable byte-stream data transfer ability amid pairs of procedures, presently utilized by the large bulk of Internet applications. The frank believed of TCP congestion manipulation is that the rate of ACKs returned by the receiver determines the rate at that the sender can send data. The TCP uses countless algorithms for congestion manipulation and every single of them controls the dispatching rate by affecting a congestion window (cwnd) that limits the number of outstanding unacknowledged bytes that are allowed at each time. The cwnd size is increased or cut reliant on the observed congestion level. In the year's countless variants have been counseled to vanquish the limitations that the average TCP has in particular scenarios, such as wireless or satellite networks. This paper surveys assorted TCP Congestion Control Mechanisms that have been counseled so distant for wireless webs.