Title
Decoupling congestion control from TCP (semi-TCP) for multi-hop wireless networks.
Abstract
Although many problems for transmission control protocol (TCP) in multi-hop wireless networks have been studied with many proposals in the literature, they are not solved completely yet. Different from the existing proposals to mitigate the limitation of TCP in multi-hop wireless networks, we propose a framework of semi-TCP which decouples two functionalities of traditional TCP, i.e., congestion control and reliability control, in order to get rid of the constraint of TCP’s congestion window on performance enhancement. Specifically, we employ hop-by-hop congestion control which is more efficient than its end-to-end counterpart since the control efficiency of the later relies on the availability of end-to-end connectivity which is difficult to sustain in wireless networks. We implement hop-by-hop congestion control via intra-node and inter-node congestion control, and propose a distributed hop-by-hop congestion control algorithm based on the widely used request-to-send/clear-to-send protocol. Such a semi-TCP retains the reliability control in original TCP. Extensive simulations based on network simulator-2 show the promising performance of semi-TCP over traditional schemes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1186/1687-1499-2013-149
EURASIP J. Wireless Comm. and Networking
Keywords
Field
DocType
Medium Access Control, Transmission Control Protocol, Congestion Control, Medium Access Control Layer, Congestion Window
H-TCP,Computer science,Computer network,Real-time computing,Zeta-TCP,TCP acceleration,BIC TCP,TCP tuning,TCP global synchronization,TCP Friendly Rate Control,HSTCP,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
2013
1
1687-1499
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
9
0.36
20
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yegui Cai123610.73
Shengming Jiang263162.04
Quansheng Guan313222.37
F. Richard Yu41015.83