Discriminating congestion losses from wireless losses using inter-arrival times at the receiver

Saad Biaz, Nitin H. Vaidya

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Abstract

We present a simple scheme which enables a TCP receiver to distinguish congestion losses from corruption losses. The scheme works in the case where the last hop to the receiver is a wireless link and has the smallest bandwidth among all links on the connection path. We added our mechanism to TCP-Reno to evaluate the performance improvement. We compared our scheme against Ideal TCP-Reno which is TCP-Reno that can perfectly (but artificially) distinguish between congestion losses and wireless transmission losses. Under favourable conditions, our scheme performs similar to Ideal TCP-Reno and can lead to significant throughput improvement.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings - 1999 IEEE Symposium on Application-Specific Systems and Software Engineering and Technology, ASSET 1999
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages10-17
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)0769501222, 9780769501222
DOIs
StatePublished - 1999
Event2nd IEEE Symposium on Application-Specific Systems and Software Engineering and Technology, ASSET 1999 - Richardson, United States
Duration: Mar 24 1999Mar 27 1999

Publication series

NameProceedings - 1999 IEEE Symposium on Application-Specific Systems and Software Engineering and Technology, ASSET 1999

Other

Other2nd IEEE Symposium on Application-Specific Systems and Software Engineering and Technology, ASSET 1999
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityRichardson
Period3/24/993/27/99

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Software

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