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In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), congestion may occur when sensor nodes are densely distributed and/or burst a mass of data flows, the congestion tends to cause packet loss, which sequentially causes lower throughput and wastes energy. To address this challenge this paper proposes a new congestion control scheme, Phase-divided TCP (PTCP), for wireless sensor networks. It controls the congestion through phase-divided adjusting of the growth rate of the TCP window in the slow-start. Our simulation results demonstrate that the proposed scheme can dramatically resolve congestion control problem, and improve TCP performance of wireless sensor networks.
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Li, L., Li, Y., Chen, Q., Nie, N. (2007). PTCP: Phase-Divided TCP Congestion Control Scheme in Wireless Sensor Networks. In: Zhang, H., Olariu, S., Cao, J., Johnson, D.B. (eds) Mobile Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks. MSN 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4864. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77024-4_27
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