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Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) with a loss-based congestion control is still dominantly used for reliable end-to-end data transfer over diverse types of network although it is ineffective when traversing lossy networks. We previously proposed an IP tunneling system across lossy networks using the TCP with Network Coding (TCP/NC tunnel) and showed its potential to significantly mitigate the goodput degradation of end-to-end TCP sessions without any change of end-device’s communications protocol stack, but it was shown only in homogeneous conditions. On the other hand, reliable end-to-end data transfer in diverse and heterogeneous IoT environments in a cost-efficient manner is an emerging challenge. Therefore, in this paper, we investigate the characteristics of the TCP/NC tunnel on heterogeneous networks with/without network congestions, to assess the applicability of the TCP/NC tunnel-based intelligent gateway system to IoT environments where end-devices are connected to a gateway with different link bandwidths or connected to different gateways in terms of network topology. The simulation results suggest the TCP/NC tunnel can efficiently utilize the bottleneck bandwidth in such heterogeneous situations even with congestion and achieve a significantly high goodput of end-to-end TCP sessions in a wide range of link loss degree especially when the tunnel link bandwidth is sufficient.
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The research is supported by JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research 16K00130 and “Resilient Edge Cloud Designed Network”, the Commissioned Research of NICT, Japan.
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Ha, N.V., Tsuru, M. (2019). On the Characteristics of TCP/NC Tunneling in Heterogeneous Environments. In: Xhafa, F., Barolli, L., Greguš, M. (eds) Advances in Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems. INCoS 2018. Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, vol 23. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98557-2_31
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