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It has been observed that TCP suffers from poor bandwidth utilization and extreme unfairness in wireless environment, and the utility of TCP in the multi-hop IEEE 802.11 network has been seriously questioned. TCP is the most dominant transport protocol that serves as a basis for many other protocols in wired and wireless networks. However, high transmission errors and varying latency inherent in wireless channel would have a seriously adverse effect on the performance of TCP. Thus, a novel and pragmatic cross-layer approach with joint congestion and contention window control scheme and a probabilistic approach for RTT measurement is proposed to improve the performance of TCP in multi-hop networks. The proposed design indeed provides a more efficient solution for frequent transmission loss by setting optimal congestion window to improve TCP performance in multi-hop network.
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GnanaPrakasi, O.S., Varalakshmi, P. (2012). Improving TCP Performance in Hybrid Networks. In: Meghanathan, N., Nagamalai, D., Chaki, N. (eds) Advances in Computing and Information Technology. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 176. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31513-8_42
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