An efficient TCP algorithm for differentiating random packet losses from spurious retransmission timeouts in multi-hop wireless networks

S. Prasanthi, Meejeong Lee

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Abstract

TCP Retransmission Timeouts (RTOs) related to non-congestion have been reported as one of the main reasons of the performance degradation of TCP in multi-hop wireless networks. In this paper, we introduce an efficient algorithm called TCP NRT (Non-congestion Retransmission Timeouts) which is capable of recovering packets by detecting, differentiating and reacting to congestion as well as non-congestion RTOs. TCP NRT is able to reduce the unnecessary reduction of congestion window size and needless retransmissions. We implemented the algorithm in Qualnet network simulator and compared its performance to existing TCP versions such as Eifel, F-RTO, DSACK and EQRTO. The results from experiments show that our algorithm achieves significant performance improvement in multi-hop wireless networks.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, HPCC-2012 - 9th IEEE International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems, ICESS-2012
Pages1167-1172
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Event14th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, HPCC-2012 - 9th IEEE International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems, ICESS-2012 - Liverpool, United Kingdom
Duration: 25 Jun 201227 Jun 2012

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, HPCC-2012 - 9th IEEE International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems, ICESS-2012

Conference

Conference14th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, HPCC-2012 - 9th IEEE International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems, ICESS-2012
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityLiverpool
Period25/06/1227/06/12

Keywords

  • Multihop
  • Performance
  • RTOs
  • TCP

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