Paper Info
Title
A flow control scheme based on buffer state for wireless TCP
Abstract
Reliable transport protocols such as TCP (transmission control protocol) are tuned to perform well in traditional networks where packet losses occur mostly because of congestion. However, on the wireless links where packet losses frequently happen, TCP shows a serious drop in performance. We propose a scheme, called BSF (buffer state based flow control), which can solve this problem. BSF is implemented at the base station of a wireless network. So, it does not need any modification of the TCP stacks in the end system. BSF uses the buffer state of the base station as the criterion to detect wireless link error and reduces unnecessary contraction of congestion window in TCP. As a result, the buffer of the base station maintains a non-empty state to maximize the link utilization. In our simulation study, this approach achieved up to 250 % improvement in performance.
Year
DOI
Venue
2002
10.1109/MWCN.2002.1045834
MWCN
Keywords
Field
DocType
base station,radio links,reliable transport protocols,flow control,wireless network,buffer storage,telecommunication congestion control,wireless tcp,transmission control protocol,buffer state based flow control,packet radio networks,wireless link error,packet losses,transport protocols,simulation,congestion window,link utilization maximization,performance evaluation,wireless links,heterogeneous network,tcp stacks,— tcp,red,packet loss,error correction,wireless networks,wireless application protocol,tcpip,base stations
Compound TCP,TCP Westwood plus,CUBIC TCP,Computer science,Computer network,Real-time computing,Zeta-TCP,TCP acceleration,TCP tuning,TCP Friendly Rate Control,TCP global synchronization
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7803-7605-6
3
0.50
References 
Authors
14
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jin-Hee Choi1515.87
See-hwan Yoo28610.96
Chuck Yoo39820.58