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A Comparative Performance Evaluation of the Transport Layer Protocols for Wireless Transaction Processing in Mobile Internet Environments

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Information Networking: Wireless Communications Technologies and Network Applications (ICOIN 2002)

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In this paper, we design and implement Wireless Transaction Protocol(WTP) and evaluate it for wireless transaction processing in mobile computing environments. The design and implementation of WTP are based on the co-routine model that might be suitable for light-weight portable devices. For the evaluation of WTP, we use an Internet simulator that can arbitrary generate random wireless errors based on the Gilbert model. In our experiment, the performance of WTP is measured and compared to those of Transmission Control Protocol(TCP) and TCP for Transactions. The experiment shows that WTP outperforms the other two protocols for wireless transaction processing in terms of throughput and delay. Especially, WTP shows much higher performance in case of high error rate and high probability of burst errors. This comes from the fact that WTP uses a small number of packets to process a transaction compared to the other two protocols and introduces a fixed time interval for retransmission instead of the exponential backoff algorithm. The experiment also shows that the WTP performance is optimized when the retransmission counter is set to 5 or 6 in case of high burst error rate.

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  1. Computer Science Department, Kyungpook National University, Taegu, 702-701, Korea

    Yoonsuk Choi, Howon Jung & Kyungshik Lim

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  1. Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, 86, Wangsan, Mohyun,Yongin, Kyonggi-Do, Korea, 449-791

    Ilyoung Chong

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Choi, Y., Jung, H., Lim, K. (2002). A Comparative Performance Evaluation of the Transport Layer Protocols for Wireless Transaction Processing in Mobile Internet Environments. In: Chong, I. (eds) Information Networking: Wireless Communications Technologies and Network Applications. ICOIN 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2344. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45801-8_2

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