T-DLRP: Detection of Fast Retransmission Losses Using TCP Timestamp for Improving the End-to-End Performance of TCP over Wireless Networks

Improving the end-to-end performance of TCP over wireless networks has been an active research area. When TCP operates in wireless networks, the performance of TCP degrades significantly. It is well known that frequent retransmission timeouts are the leading source of TCP performance degradation ove...

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Main Authors: Prasanthi Sreekumari, Sang-Hwa Chung, Meejeong Lee, Won-Suk Kim
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Language:English
Published: Wiley 2013-12-01
Series:International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/592502
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author Prasanthi Sreekumari
Sang-Hwa Chung
Meejeong Lee
Won-Suk Kim
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description Improving the end-to-end performance of TCP over wireless networks has been an active research area. When TCP operates in wireless networks, the performance of TCP degrades significantly. It is well known that frequent retransmission timeouts are the leading source of TCP performance degradation over wireless networks. Retransmission timeouts are unavoidable, when the fast retransmission of a lost packet fails to reach the destination. There have been many schemes developed for reducing the retransmission timeouts of TCP. However, these schemes have no mechanism to detect the loss of fast retransmitted packets over wireless networks. In this paper, we introduce an efficient TCP mechanism, called T-DLRP, which is able to detect the loss of fast retransmitted packets and react accordingly. To justify our contributions, we compared T-DLRP against TCP New Reno, Vegas, New Jersey, Veno, Cerl, and DAC via extensive simulations using Qualnet 4.5 simulator. The results demonstrate that our mechanism achieves significant improvement over existing TCP variants especially in a coexisted network with packet loss and fast retransmission losses. Compared to DAC, T-DLRP gains more than 70% improvement in terms of accuracy over wireless networks. Also, our experiments of multiple connections of the same TCP flows reveal that T-DLRP has better fairness compared to TCP NewReno.
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spelling doaj-art-359010bc5dfc437fa76a43f9fb12a8942025-08-20T03:18:41ZengWileyInternational Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks1550-14772013-12-01910.1155/2013/592502592502T-DLRP: Detection of Fast Retransmission Losses Using TCP Timestamp for Improving the End-to-End Performance of TCP over Wireless NetworksPrasanthi Sreekumari0Sang-Hwa Chung1Meejeong Lee2Won-Suk Kim3 School of Computer Science and Engineering, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750, Republic of Korea School of Computer Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan 609-735, Republic of Korea School of Computer Science and Engineering, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750, Republic of Korea School of Computer Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan 609-735, Republic of KoreaImproving the end-to-end performance of TCP over wireless networks has been an active research area. When TCP operates in wireless networks, the performance of TCP degrades significantly. It is well known that frequent retransmission timeouts are the leading source of TCP performance degradation over wireless networks. Retransmission timeouts are unavoidable, when the fast retransmission of a lost packet fails to reach the destination. There have been many schemes developed for reducing the retransmission timeouts of TCP. However, these schemes have no mechanism to detect the loss of fast retransmitted packets over wireless networks. In this paper, we introduce an efficient TCP mechanism, called T-DLRP, which is able to detect the loss of fast retransmitted packets and react accordingly. To justify our contributions, we compared T-DLRP against TCP New Reno, Vegas, New Jersey, Veno, Cerl, and DAC via extensive simulations using Qualnet 4.5 simulator. The results demonstrate that our mechanism achieves significant improvement over existing TCP variants especially in a coexisted network with packet loss and fast retransmission losses. Compared to DAC, T-DLRP gains more than 70% improvement in terms of accuracy over wireless networks. Also, our experiments of multiple connections of the same TCP flows reveal that T-DLRP has better fairness compared to TCP NewReno.https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/592502
spellingShingle Prasanthi Sreekumari
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T-DLRP: Detection of Fast Retransmission Losses Using TCP Timestamp for Improving the End-to-End Performance of TCP over Wireless Networks
International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
title T-DLRP: Detection of Fast Retransmission Losses Using TCP Timestamp for Improving the End-to-End Performance of TCP over Wireless Networks
title_full T-DLRP: Detection of Fast Retransmission Losses Using TCP Timestamp for Improving the End-to-End Performance of TCP over Wireless Networks
title_fullStr T-DLRP: Detection of Fast Retransmission Losses Using TCP Timestamp for Improving the End-to-End Performance of TCP over Wireless Networks
title_full_unstemmed T-DLRP: Detection of Fast Retransmission Losses Using TCP Timestamp for Improving the End-to-End Performance of TCP over Wireless Networks
title_short T-DLRP: Detection of Fast Retransmission Losses Using TCP Timestamp for Improving the End-to-End Performance of TCP over Wireless Networks
title_sort t dlrp detection of fast retransmission losses using tcp timestamp for improving the end to end performance of tcp over wireless networks
url https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/592502
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