一种改善TCP性能的cdma2000链路层RLP重传方案

在无线数据传输网络中,物理层帧差错率(FER)是影响网络性能的一个主要因素。无线链路层重传技术是改善网络性能因无线信道误码率较高而下降的一项重要措施。本文主要研究cdma2000无线网络中链路层重传技术对无线TCP数据传输的影响,提出一种cdma2000链路层重传方案,并通过OPNET仿真技术对该重传方案进行仿真,验证了该方案能改善TCP数据在cdma2000无线网络中的传输性能。     

一种自适应cdma2000无线链路层重传算法

TCP应用是3G无线网络中常用的分组数据业务,而无线网络较大的物理层帧差错率(FER)是影响网络性能的一个主要因素,链路层重传技术是改善网络性能因无线信道误码率大而下降的一项重要措施。主要研究cdma2000中链路层重传技术对无线TCP数据传输的影响。提出一种能改善TCP传输性能的自适应链路层重传算法。通过OPNET仿真工具对该重传算法进行仿真,验证了该算法在一定程度上能提高cdma2000无线网络中的TCP数据传输吞吐量。     

改进无线网络TCP性能的研究

对采用TCP协议传输数据的实现过程及其在无线网络中可能遇到的问题进行了描述。对因无线信道误码率较高和频繁切换而导致网络性能下降的问题,提出了无线链路层快速重传技术改善网络性能的有效措施,并研究了在无线网络中链路层快速重传技术对无线TCP数据传输的影响。仿真表明链路层快速重传可以有效地改善无线TCP的性能,进一步提高了网络利用率和吞吐量。     

全IP蜂窝通信系统TCP性能的改进

在无线网络中,造成丢包的主要原因是无线链路的高误码率(BER)及主机在区域间移动。如果TCP的丢包处理简单采用启动拥塞控制机制,势必导致网络传输性能恶化。本文以全IP蜂窝通信系统为例,概述TCP/IP协议组用于无线链路的性能问题,提出解决这些问题的方案,分析该方案的优点和局限性。     

无线网络中传输控制协议的研究

传统TCP(传输控制协议)拥塞控制协议本是为有线网络设计,它假设包丢失完全是由网络拥塞引起。在无线网络环境下除了拥塞丢包外,还存在较高的比特误码率、路由故障等因素引起的丢包现象。当出现非拥塞丢包时,传统TCP将错误地触发拥塞控制,从而引起TCP性能低下。文章在分析传统TCP在无线网络中存在问题的基础上,对目前无线TCP发展和技术进行归纳和比较,进一步给出无线传输协议的研究和发展方向。     

MANET中TCP性能改进研究

TCP是为有线网络所设计的,其拥塞控制机制中,假设丢包是由网络拥塞造成的这一结论在MANET中不再适用。MANET中的高信道误码率,路由频繁中断等因素都会造成丢包。TCP错误的将所有丢包事件都当作拥塞处理,造成了传输性能的极大下降。文中首先总结了MANET中导致TCP传输性能下降的主要原因,然后对现有的一些典型TCP改进方案进行了讨论,最后对这些技术方案进行了比较,并指出今后研究的重点。     

无线Mesh网中基于网络编码的多路径TCP研究

在无线多跳网络中,本地重传和网络编码已经被成功地应用到多路径技术上以增加吞吐量并减少丢包。然而,在提高UDP传输性能的同时,也产生了数据包重排序和延迟等副作用,严重影响了TCP性能。针对此问题,主要提出一种基于网络编码的多路径传输方案NC-MPTCP,即在无线mesh网络的多条路径中引入网络编码、执行拥塞控制以及使用一个基于信用的方法控制节点的传输速率,提高网络的吞吐量以及增加网络传输的可靠性。该方案使用一个简单的算法,评估丢包率以及发送线性组合数据包的速率,用来降低目的节点的数据包解码延迟和防止TCP的超时重传。仿真结果表明设计的NC-MPTCP有效。     

无线网络中TCP友好流媒体传输改进机制

为保持无线网络中多媒体业务对TCP的友好性，提出了一种适用于无线网络的动态自适应的流媒体传输速率调节机制。该机制通过在接收端区分网络拥塞丢包和链路错误随机丢包，准确判断网络的拥塞状况结合接收端缓存区占用程度，自适应实施多级速率调节，实现了TCP流友好性和流媒体服务质量（QoS）的折中。由于准确区分出无线链路误码丢包和动态调整流媒体QoS要求，该机制能维持较高的网络利用率。仿真实验结果显示在连接数为2和32，链路误码率从0到0．1变化时TCP,TFRC和吞吐量幅度下降幅度较大，WTFCC幅度下降相对较慢，最大相差达2M；在网络负载重时，尽管链路误码率较低，WTFCC区分链路错误与拥塞丢包，因此，端到端丢包率高于TCP和TFRC，但整体传输吞吐量也高于两者。归一化吞吐量显示WTFCC对TCP流友好。     

卫星网络中的TCP跨层技术研究

CCSDS链路层协议TC的重传功能可以减少误码丢包而导致TCP窗口缩减、吞吐量降低的情况,但是链路层对丢失的数据反复重传易引起数据包端到端传输时延的剧烈变化,可能导致TCP数据包失序和重传定时器发生超时,引起传输层和链路层重复重传的情况.该文通过链路层与传输层的差错控制信息交互,传输层将TCP数据的序列号通告链路层,链...     

适用于卫星网络的TCP跨层改进机制

该文提出基于跨层信息交互,将链路层ARQ重传状态信息通知TCP的机制,避免了链路层重传引起的时延变化对TCP的不利影响。该机制使用完全可靠选择性重传ARQ为TCP提供可靠的链路,避免卫星链路上发生丢包,并且不必要求链路层保证包按序递交,消除了重排序的等待时延,适合带宽时延积较大的卫星网络。仿真结果表明,能显著提高TCP在卫星网中的性能,特别是在误帧率较高条件下。     

基于明确丢失应答的异质网络传输控制

指出链路层策略在提高无线链路可靠性的同时,对传输层带来的影响,并采用明确丢失应答作为反馈信息,根据不同的数据丢失原因采取相应的措施,保证了对有线拥塞的及时检测和处理能力,使源端能在无线链路传输差错率高的情况下保持较高的传输速率,同时避免传输层与链路层之间不必要的重发竞争,从而提高了异质媒体网络上端到端的数据吞吐量。     

Performance study of link layer and MAC layer protocols to support TCP in 3G CDMA systems

Providing support for TCP with good quality link connection is a key issue for future wireless networks in which Internet access is going to be one of the most important data services. A number of schemes have been proposed in literature to improve the TCP performance over wireless links. In this paper, we study the performance of a particular combination of link layer protocol (e.g., radio link protocol or RLP) and MAC retransmissions to support the TCP connections over third generation (3G) wireless CDMA networks. We specifically investigate two metrics - the packet error rate and the delay provided by RLP and MAC retransmissions - both of which are important for TCP performance. For independent and identically distributed (i.i.d) error channels, we propose an analytical model for RLP performance with MAC retransmission. The segmentation of TCP/IP packets into smaller RLP frames, as well as the RLP buffering process, is modeled using a Markov chain. For correlated fading channels, we introduce an analytical metric called RLP retransmission efficiency. We show that: 1) the RLP frame size has significant impact on the overall 3G system performance, 2) MAC layer retransmissions significantly improve the TCP performance, and 3) the RLP retransmission scheme performs better in highly correlated channels, while other scheme performs better in low correlated channels. Simulation results also confirm these conclusions.     

Design of coordinator to eliminate redundant local retransmission in wireless networks

Owing to limited bandwidth, high bit error rate, and bursty error in the wireless environment, the performance of the transmission control protocol (TCP) degrades greatly in wireless networks.Up to now, many researchers have contributed greatly to the wireless TCP field.However, in most of their works, the wireless TCP module usually works in the TCP layer and has no idea of the actual time of the packet transmission, which is determined by the Scheduler in the media access control (MAC) layer, and this will bring the inaccuracy to the local retransmission timeout and induce the redundant local retransmission.In this article, a coordinator is introduced into the base-station (BS), which can provide efficient cooperation between the TCP module and the scheduler module.On the bais of the performance analysis and simulation results, the proposed method is shown to eliminate redundant local retransmission, increase throughput, and improve TCP-level fairness in wireless networks.Moreover, this scheme is orthogonal to those existing wireless TCP schemes, thus it can give great compatibility to the current networks, and further enhance the performance of TCP under the condition that the performance improvement benefiting from the existing approaches will not be affected.     

TCP over optical burst-switched networks with controlled burst retransmission

For optical burst-switched (OBS) networks in which TCP is implemented at a higher layer, the loss of bursts can lead to serious degradation of TCP performance. Due to the bufferless nature of OBS, random burst losses may occur, even at low traffic loads. Consequently, these random burst losses may be mistakenly interpreted by the TCP layer as congestion in the network. The TCP sender will then trigger congestion control mechanisms, thereby reducing TCP throughput unnecessarily. In this paper, we introduce a controlled retransmission scheme in which the bursts lost due to contention in the OBS network are retransmitted at the OBS layer. The OBS retransmission scheme can reduce the burst loss probability in the OBS core network. Also, the OBS retransmission scheme can reduce the probability that the TCP layer falsely detects congestion, thereby improving the TCP throughput. We develop an analytical model for evaluating the burst loss probability in an OBS network that uses a retransmission scheme, and we also analyze TCP throughput when the OBS layer implements burst retransmission. We develop a simulation model to validate the analytical results. Simulation and analytical results show that an OBS layer with controlled burst retransmission provides up to two to three orders of magnitude improvement in TCP throughput over an OBS layer without burst retransmission. This significant improvement is primarily because the TCP layer triggers fewer time-outs when the OBS retransmission scheme is used.     

QoS aware transmission control scheme for multihop WiMAX network

The IEEE 802.16j Mobile Multihop Relay (MMR) WiMAX network allows the number of hops between the end user and the base station to be more than two hops. It supports non‐real‐time Polling Service, which considers the minimum reserved rate and the maximum sustained rate as a QoS requirements. The reliability of sending the data over MMR WiMAX is achieved by using Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) in transport layer and automatic repeat request in the link layer. However, the use of automatic repeat request in the link layer makes the round trip time fluctuate rapidly, which increases the possibility of retransmission timeout (RTO) expiration. TCP performance degrades because of frequent timeout, and hence the QoS transmission rates cannot be satisfied. Therefore, this paper presents an RTO smoothing scheme and QoS aware transmission control to enhance the performance of data transmission over MMR WiMAX networks. The RTO smoothing scheme aims to reduce the frequent timeout occurrences. The slow start threshold and maximum congestion window are adjusted to satisfy the required QoS and it provides transmission rate fairness for the users at different hops. The results showed that, the proposed schemes reduce the timeout, and improve the utilization of the allocated resources and TCP throughput. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

TCP-Jersey for wireless IP communications

Improving the performance of the transmission control protocol (TCP) in wireless Internet protocol (IP) communications has been an active research area. The performance degradation of TCP in wireless and wired-wireless hybrid networks is mainly due to its lack of the ability to differentiate the packet losses caused by network congestions from the losses caused by wireless link errors. In this paper, we propose a new TCP scheme, called TCP-Jersey, which is capable of distinguishing the wireless packet losses from the congestion packet losses, and reacting accordingly. TCP-Jersey consists of two key components, the available bandwidth estimation (ABE) algorithm and the congestion warning (CW) router configuration. ABE is a TCP sender side addition that continuously estimates the bandwidth available to the connection and guides the sender to adjust its transmission rate when the network becomes congested. CW is a configuration of network routers such that routers alert end stations by marking all packets when there is a sign of an incipient congestion. The marking of packets by the CW configured routers helps the sender of the TCP connection to effectively differentiate packet losses caused by network congestion from those caused by wireless link errors. This paper describes the design of TCP-Jersey, and presents results from experiments using the NS-2 network simulator. Results from simulations show that in a congestion free network with 1% of random wireless packet loss rate, TCP-Jersey achieves 17% and 85% improvements in goodput over TCP-Westwood and TCP-Reno, respectively; in a congested network where TCP flow competes with VoIP flows, with 1% of random wireless packet loss rate, TCP-Jersey achieves 9% and 76% improvements in goodput over TCP-Westwood and TCP-Reno, respectively. Our experiments of multiple TCP flows show that TCP-Jersey maintains the fair and friendly behavior with respect to other TCP flows.     

Packet Recycling and Delayed ACK for Improving the Performance of TCP over MANETs

Most of the schemes that were proposed to improve the performance of transmission control protocol (TCP) over mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) are based on a feedback from the network, which can be expensive (require extra bandwidth) and unreliable. Moreover, most of these schemes consider only one cause of packet loss. They also resume operation based on the same stand-by parameters that might vary in the new route. Therefore, we propose two techniques for improving the performance of TCP over MANETs. The first one, called TCP with packet recycling (TCP-PR), allows the nodes to recycle the packets instead of dropping them after reaching the retransmission limit at the MAC layer. In the second technique, which is called TCP with adaptive delay window (TCP-ADW), the receiver delays sending TCP ACK for a certain time that is dynamically changed according to the congestion window and the trip time of the received packet. TCP-PR and TCP-ADW are simple, easy to implement, do not require network feedback, compatible with the standard TCP, and do not require distinguishing between the causes of packet loss. Our thorough simulations show that the integration of our two techniques improves the performance of TCP over MANETs.     

无线网络中实时业务的随机超时早检测缓存管理算法

该文提出一种适用于无线网络中实时业务的随机超时早检测缓存管理算法。考虑到无线网络具有动态变化的信道条件和存在传输错误等特点,算法分为3个层次:以保证重传分组不超时为目标,采用类似于拥塞早检测的方法对超时进行早期检测和随机丢弃;根据信道条件的变化趋势对丢弃概率进行自适应调节;根据信道速率的变化对门限值进行调整。在算法设计时,同时兼顾了分组丢弃对TCP性能的影响。仿真表明,采用该算法后,系统性能得到改善。