Design Considerations for RINA Congestion Control over WiFi Links

Suboptimal TCP congestion control performance over wireless 802.11 (WiFi) networks is a well known issue. We will argue that some of these problems are difficult to overcome when employing end-to-end congestion control such as in TCP. Using measurements, we show that control could better be applied locally, using knowledge about the local WiFi connection and adapting to its characteristics. Under the Recursive InterNetworking Architecture (RINA), using such schemes is a natural architectural consequence, making deployment simpler and more efficient than in the “normal” Internet.