Performance Analysis of TCP with Delayed Acknowledgments in Multi-hop Ad-hoc Networks

The acknowledgment strategy has great potential to increase TCP throughput when it runs over 802.11 MAC protocol. In particular, TCP acknowledgments (ACK) carry out an extensive number of medium accesses as they compete in the same route as data packets for media. In this paper, we first propose a dynamic TCP-MAC interaction strategy which tries to reduce the number of induced ACKs by monitoring the channel condition. To this end, the total collision probability collected along the path from sender to receiver in MAC layer has been used to properly set the number of delayed ACKs (DA) in TCP. Based on the estimated collision probability, TCP sender dynamically adjusts itself to the channel condition by delaying less ACKs in high traffic conditions and more ACKs in low traffic conditions. The simulation results show a throughput improvement up to 15% over the existing method called Dynamic Adaptive Acknowledgment (TCP-DAA) and much more over the regular TCP in different scenarios dealing with a dynamic loss rate. In addition, we show that our proposed strategy does not always benefit from a fixed delay policy along with a fixed congestion window size. In fact, the optimal number of delayed ACKs is based on the path length of a TCP connection and a large delay window may solely improve TCP throughput in short ranges with less number of flows. However, in a longer path congestion window limit provides more throughput gain.     

Multi-hop Delay Performance in Wireless Mesh Networks

Wireless Mesh Network (WMN) technology is an attractive solution to meet the demand of broadband network access anywhere and anytime. In order to effectively support delay-sensitive applications such as video streaming and interactive gaming in a WMN, it is crucial to develop feasible methodologies and techniques for accurately analyzing, predicting and guaranteeing end-to-end delay performance over multi-hop wireless communication paths. In this paper, we extend the link-layer effective capacity model and derive a lower bound of delay-bound violation probability, or complementary cumulative distribution function, over multi-hop wireless connections. A fluid traffic model with cross traffic and a Rayleigh fading channel with additive Gaussian noise and Doppler spectrum are considered in our study. The average multi-hop delay and jitter performance bounds are also obtained. Analytical results are verified by extensive computer simulations under different traffic load and wireless channel conditions. We find that multi-hop delay performance is much more sensitive to traffic load and maximum Doppler rate than traffic correlation.     

A Smart TCP Acknowledgment Approach for Multihop Wireless Networks

Reliable data transfer is one of the most difficult tasks to be accomplished in multihop wireless networks. Traditional transport protocols like TCP face severe performance degradation over multihop networks given the noisy nature of wireless media as well as unstable connectivity conditions in place. The success of TCP in wired networks motivates its extension to wireless networks. A crucial challenge faced by TCP over these networks is how to operate smoothly with the 802.11 wireless MAC protocol which also implements a retransmission mechanism at link level in addition to short RTS/CTS control frames for avoiding collisions. These features render TCP acknowledgments (ACK) transmission quite costly. Data and ACK packets cause similar medium access overheads despite the much smaller size of the ACKs. In this paper, we further evaluate our dynamic adaptive strategy for reducing ACK-induced overhead and consequent collisions. Our approach resembles the sender side's congestion control. The receiver is self-adaptive by delaying more ACKs under nonconstrained channels and less otherwise. This improves not only throughput but also power consumption. Simulation evaluations exhibit significant improvement in several scenarios     

一种多跳无线网络中的高效广播算法

广播是多跳无线网络中的一种基本操作。现有的广播算法中普遍存在转发冗余过多的问题。该文首先分析了覆盖网络所需的最少转发节点数目,然后以此为基础,提出了一种简单高效的广播算法。该算法中,每个节点最多只需选择3个转发节点,从而明显地减少了广播的转发次数,提高了节点能量和网络资源的利用率;同时,所有转发节点实现了对整个网络接近双重的覆盖,能够保证较高的传输可靠性;此外,对不同的网络规模和拓扑的动态变化,该算法具有较好的可扩展性。仿真结果显示,该算法在多种常见的网络环境下具有比现有方法更优越的性能。     

TCP在无线ATM环境下的性能分析

本文对无线ATM网络环境下的TCP性能进行了分析.首先,对TCP的吞吐量效率进行了理论分析,并根据广域网流量分布的特点,选取几个典型的TCP报文段长,得到了TCP吞吐量效率与误信元率的关系.然后,通过在OPNET平台上进行仿真,证明了理论分析的合理性,并得出了结论.进一步地,对TCP最佳报文段长与误信元率的关系进行了分析,提出应根据误信元率情况调整传输控制协议报文段长,从而获得最大的吞吐量效率.     

A Novel Network Coding Algorithm to Improve TCP in Wireless Networks

Wireless Personal Communications - This paper proposed a novel algorithm called Efficiency Network Coding (ENC) for wireless mesh networks. The ENC algorithm is based on COPE protocol and consists...     

在OBS网络中改进TCP性能的高效机制

Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) performance over Optical Burst Switching (OBS) is experimentally investigated on an OBS network testbed, concluding that burst losses will lead to a significant drop in the available TCP bandwidth. Two mechanisms are introduced to improve TCP performance. One is concerning the burst assembly optimization and another is based on the novel assembly and scheduling mechanism to reduce the burst losses.     

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。     

无线Ad Hoc网中的TCP SACK与TCP Vegas

本文用仿真方法分析了TCP SACK和Vegas在无线ab hoc网络中的性能，提出了一种改进的SACK选项格式（ASACK）和一种称为环回时间通知（RN）的新技术以分别用于提高TCP SACK和TCP Vegas在无线ab hoc网中的性能。为了研究路由稳定性TCP Vegas性能的影响，我们实现了一种基于相关性的选路协议（ABR）。     

Use of TCP Decoupling in Improving TCP Performance over Wireless Networks

We propose using the TCP decoupling approach to improve a TCP connection's goodput over wireless networks. The performance improvement can be analytically shown to be proportional to , where MTU is the maximum transmission unit of participating wireless links and HP_Sz is the size of a packet containing only a TCP/IP header. For example, on a WaveLAN [32] wireless network, where MTU is 1500 bytes and HP_Sz is 40 bytes, the achieved goodput improvement is about 350%. We present experimental results demonstrating that TCP decoupling outperforms TCP reno and TCP SACK. These results confirm the analysis of performance improvement.     

改善无线自组织网络TCP性能的研究

本文分析了在ad hoc网络中TCP协议的主要缺陷,并对目前提出的几种改进方案进行了比较分析,最后给出了结论和研究方向.     

Analysis and Throughput Performance of IEEE 802.11 DCF in Multi-hop Wireless Networks

This paper presents a simple and more accurate linear approximation model to compute the throughput for a saturated IEEE 802.11 distributed coordination function using the Request to Send/Clear to Send mechanism for multi-hop wireless networks. The linear approximation model is closer to reality since it takes a majority of the factors that are neglected in previous works. Most of the previous works provide complex nonlinear system equations that are difficult to set their parameters in simulation or experiments. In addition, analytical results for these nonlinear models are difficult to verify and some equations are given without clear proof. Some other works also attempt to provide approximate solutions to the nonlinear system. This paper introduces a new linear approximation model that reduces the complexity of the nonlinear analytical model. We investigate the linear approximation model with different values of the maximum backoff stage and number of nodes. Analytical results show that the linear approximation model outperforms the renowned non-linear approximation model.     

大型无线网络中的多跳网络编码

基于网络编码的协作分集技术是目前的无线网络的研究热点.许多研究从理论上证明了它的有效性,但是对于大型网络中网络编码技术的应用的研究涉及较少.采用LDPC码的结构研究了协作分集网络中的网络编码构造,并把它拓展到多跳网络中.这种方法可以根据瞬时的网络拓扑结构形成网络编码,从而适应移动环境下多节点的随机接入,通过获得的网络编码增益提高网络可靠性.     

Improving TCP/IP Performance over Third-Generation Wireless Networks

As third-generation (3G) wireless networks with high data rate get widely deployed, optimizing the transmission control protocol (TCP) performance over these networks would have a broad and significant impact on data application performance. In this paper, we make two main contributions. First, one of the biggest challenges in optimizing the TCP performance over the 3G wireless networks is adapting to the significant delay and rate variations over the wireless channel. We present window regulator algorithms that use the receiver window field in the acknowledgment (ACK) packets to convey the instantaneous wireless channel conditions to the TCP source and an ACK buffer to absorb the channel variations, thereby maximizing long-lived TCP performance. It improves the performance of TCP selective ACK (SACK) by up to 100 percent over a simple drop-tail policy, with small buffer sizes at the congested router. Second, we present a wireless channel and TCP-aware scheduling and buffer sharing algorithm that reduces the latency of short flows while still exploiting user diversity for a wide range of user and traffic mix.     

TCP-BIAD for Enhancing TCP Performance in Broadband Wireless Access Networks

In this paper a new TCP variant, named TCP-Binary Increase, Adaptive Decrease is presented. The suggested congestion control algorithm is a joint approach of Westwood and an enhanced version of BIC, for improving TCP performance in broadband wireless access networks. BIAD has been evaluated with respect to other TCP variants such as Reno, Westwood, BIC, CUBIC, HSTCP and STCP with the use of network simulator 2. The results indicate that the proposed solution achieves high network utilization levels in a wide range of network settings, including wireless channel errors, link asymmetry and congestion. We also evaluated TCP-BIAD when multiple flows share a bottlenecked access link and we show that it demonstrates the fairness features required for network deployment.     

改进半双工链路TCP性能的方法

网络的非对称特性,使TCP协议的性能不仅依赖于正向链路特性和流量特性,而且取决于反向链路特性和流量特性。半双工无线链路没有明显的不对称特性,但由于无法同时发送和接收信息,从而影响TCP协议的性能。本文分析无线网段的半双工特性对TCP协议性能的影响,并给出一种改善措施。     

An Accurate Performance Analysis for Regenerative Multi-hop Relaying in Wireless Networks Over Composite Multipath/Shadowed Fading

This paper presents and evaluates the performance of wireless networks that utilize the decode-and-forward relay. This multi-hop relaying scheme communicates over Extended Generalized-\({\mathcal {K}}\) (\(\hbox {EG}{\mathcal {K}}\)) composite fading channels to create performance evaluation. To this effect, new exact and easy to compute formulas for several performance metrics are derived. More specifically, new and exact-form mathematical formulas are derived for the cumulative distribution function, the generalized moments of the overall end-to-end signal-to-noise ratio, the outage probability (\({\hbox {P}}_{\text{out}}\)), the ergodic capacity (\({\mathcal {C}}_{\text{Ergodic}}\)), the moment generating function, and the average error probability (\({\hbox {Pr(e)}}\)) for different modulation schemes. Moreover, we carried out a series of computer simulation experiments in order to testify the accuracy of the derived framework. Finally, we discussed the impact of different parameters including fading/shadowing parameters, transmitted power and the number of hops on the derived expressions.     

无线传感器网络自适应功率控制策略

无线传感器网络功率控制技术对于网络的拓扑连通、能量效率、网络容量、吞吐量、实时性等性能均有显著影响,是其实用化的重要支撑技术。该文提出了一种适用于无线传感器网络的自适应功率控制策略APCS(Adaptive Power Control Strategy),该策略是只需要局部信息的分布式算法,通过调整路径损耗指数和功率控制参数可以获得性能极佳的目标拓扑,并能满足实时性和容错能力要求较高的应用场景。另外,该算法还采用了动态功率调整以保持网络的连通性,延长网络的生命周期。仿真结果证实了所提方法的有效性。