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Novel Fastest Retransmission and Rate Control Schemes for Improving TCP Performance in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

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A number of different authors have considered the problem of performance degradation of transmission control protocol (TCP) in wireless ad hoc networks. We herein show that pauses in packet transmission due to packet losses are the fundamental cause of performance degradation of TCP in wireless ad hoc networks. To minimize the duration of packet transmission pauses, we propose a fast retransmission scheme for improving TCP performance in consideration of the inter-operability of previously deployed TCPs in wireless ad hoc networks. We also propose an additional rate control scheme for TCPs to reduce the probability of packet contention. Using OPNET and NS2 simulations, we show that our proposed schemes can provide a much better performance than conventional TCPs.

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This research was funded by the MSIP (Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning), Korea in the ICT R&D Program 2013.

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  1. Department of Information Technology, Convergence of Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) Institute, Daejeon, Republic of Korea

    Sungkwan Jung

  2. Department of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Republic of Korea

    Jeongman Lee, Gangminh Lee & Dong-Ho Cho

  3. Network R&D Laboratory, Korea Telecom, Seoul, Republic of Korea

    Sung-Yeop Pyun

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Jung, S., Lee, J., Lee, G. et al. Novel Fastest Retransmission and Rate Control Schemes for Improving TCP Performance in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks. Wireless Pers Commun 75, 557–567 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-013-1376-5

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