Title
On the Use of an Increased Initial Congestion Window to Improve mSCTP Handover Performance
Abstract
With the wireless landscape being rather heterogeneous, handover between different network technologies, so-called vertical handover, becomes key to a continued success for wireless Internet access. Recently, an extension to the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) -- the Dynamic Address Reconfiguration (DAR) extension -- was standardized by the IETF. This extension enables the use of SCTP for vertical handover. Still, the way vertical hand overworks in SCTP with DAR makes it less suitable for real-time traffic. Particularly, it takes a significant amount of time for the traffic to ramp up to full speed on the handover target path. In this paper, we study the extent to which an increased initial congestion window on the handover target path decreases the transfer delay spikes in real-time video traffic experienced during a vertical handover. The impact on both standard and high-definition video traffic is considered. The results of our study suggest that an increased initial congestion window does indeed significantly decrease the spikes in the video traffic. However, the results also indicate that it does not resolve the problem altogether.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/WAINA.2012.111
Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops
Keywords
Field
DocType
handover target path,wireless internet access,vertical hand overwork,so-called vertical handover,initial congestion window,improve msctp handover performance,high-definition video traffic,increased initial congestion window,real-time video traffic,vertical handover,video traffic,real-time traffic,video,real time systems,computer science,stream control transmission protocol,real time,wireless communication,congestion window,protocols,handover,multihoming,sctp,congestion control,mobility
Multihoming,Stream Control Transmission Protocol,Wireless,Vertical handover,Congestion window,Computer science,Computer network,Real-time computing,Network congestion,Control reconfiguration,Handover
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4673-0867-0
0
0.34
References 
Authors
17
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Johan Eklund1194.66
Karl-Johan Grinnemo214321.42
Anna Brunstrom3445125.16