ARROW-WTCP: A fast transport protocol based on explicit congestion notification over wired/wireless networks

An explicit congestion notification (ECN)-based distributed transport protocol, ARROW-WTCP (AcceleRate tRansmission towards Optimal Window size TCP for Wireless network), was proposed. The ARROW-WTCP enables feasible deployment of ARROW-TCP from wired to wireless networks by providing a joint design...

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Published inJournal of Central South University Vol. 18; no. 3; pp. 800 - 808
Main Authors Wang, Jian-xin, Li, Jing, Rong, Liang
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Changsha Central South University 01.06.2011
Subjects
Engineering
Metallic Materials
fairness
IEEE 802.11
ARROW-WTCP
transport protocol
convergence
stability
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Summary:An explicit congestion notification (ECN)-based distributed transport protocol, ARROW-WTCP (AcceleRate tRansmission towards Optimal Window size TCP for Wireless network), was proposed. The ARROW-WTCP enables feasible deployment of ARROW-TCP from wired to wireless networks by providing a joint design of source and router algorithms. The protocol obtains the actual capacity of the wireless channel by calculating the queue variation in base station (BS) and adjusts the congestion window by using the feedback from its bottleneck link. The simulation results show that the ARROW-WTCP achieves strong stability, max-min fairness in dynamic networks, fast convergence to efficiency without introducing much excess traffic, and almost full link utilization in the steady state. It outperforms the XCP-B (eXplicit Control Protocol Blind), the wireless version of XCP, in terms of stability, fairness, convergence and utilization in wireless networks.
ISSN:2095-2899
2227-5223
DOI:10.1007/s11771-011-0765-8