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Evaluation of Transport Layer Loss Notification in Wireless Environments

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Networking - ICN 2005 (ICN 2005)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNCCN,volume 3420))

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Residual bit-errors in wireless environments are well known to cause difficulties for congestion controlled protocols like TCP. In this study we focus on a receiver-based loss differentiation approach to mitigating the problems, and more specifically on two different loss notification schemes. The fully receiver-based 3-dupack scheme uses additional dupacks to implicitly influence the retransmission behavior of the sender. The second TCP option scheme uses a TCP option to explicitly convey a corruption notification. Although these schemes look relatively simple at first glance, when examining the details several issues exist which are highlighted and discussed. A performance evaluation based on a FreeBSD kernel implementation show that the TCP option scheme works well in all tested cases and provides a considerable throughput improvement. The 3-dupack scheme also provide performance gains in most cases, but the improvements varies more between different test cases, with some cases showing no improvement over regular TCP.

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Garcia, J., Brunstrom, A. (2005). Evaluation of Transport Layer Loss Notification in Wireless Environments. In: Lorenz, P., Dini, P. (eds) Networking - ICN 2005. ICN 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3420. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-31956-6_30

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