Enhanced westwood+ TCP for wireless/heterogeneous networks

Cui Lin, Seok J. Koh, Jung Soo Park, Hyoung Jun Kim

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Abstract

Westwood/Westwood+ TCP is well known by its effective AIAD (Additive Increase and Adaptive Decrease) bandwidth estimation algorithm. In this paper, we propose an enhanced Westwood+ scheme for wireless/heterogeneous networks with a high random bit error rate (BER), in which the sender is introduced with the following three characteristics: 1) to consider the impact of corruption strength in bandwidth estimation; 2) to reset new slow start threshold (ssthresh) and congestion window (cwnd) after receiving every special ACK with random bit error event's information; 3) to effectively avoid the unwanted timeouts which can be induced in conventional TCP in the case that the retransmitted packets are corrupted in wireless channel. Simulation results show that in the heterogeneous network with 1% fixed packet corruption rate as well as variational packet loss rate, the proposed scheme could achieve prominent improvements in goodput over Westwood+, NewReno and Reno TCP, respectively, in most cases.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2006 Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications, APCC
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006
Event2006 Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications, APCC - Busan, Korea, Republic of
Duration: 31 Aug 20061 Sep 2006

Publication series

Name2006 Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications, APCC

Conference

Conference2006 Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications, APCC
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CityBusan
Period31/08/061/09/06

Keywords

  • Bandwidth estimation
  • BER
  • Corruption
  • Loss differentiation
  • TCP
  • Westwood
  • Wireless

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