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TCP over wireless link with ARQ schemes

AuthorPreesan Rakwatin
Call NumberAIT RSPR no. TC-99-05
Subject(s)TCP/IP (Computer network protocol)

NoteA research submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Engineering
PublisherAsian Institute of Technology
AbstractThe scenario is that a bulk data transfer is being performed over a TCP connection, from a host on a local area network (LAN) to a mobile host attached to the LAN by a radio link. In (Kumar, 1998), they had assumed that packet losses in a TCP connection over a radio link are statistically independent. In (Kumar, and Holtzman, 1996), they extend this analysis to a Rayleigh fading link, which is modeled by a two state Markov model. In our work, we compare the bulk throughputs of TCP-OldTahoe and TCP-Tahoe with and without fading for various average signal-to-noise ratios. We also study the performance with link protocol (Stop-and-Wait and Selective-reject) on the wireless link, and study the effect of varying the link packet size, the number of link packet attempts, and the vehicle speed. For fixed signal-to-noise ratio, as the vehicle speed varies there are roughly 3 regions of performance: at very low speeds (pedestrian speeds) the throughput is very good; at low vehicular speeds the throughput deteriorates, and again becomes very good at higher vehicle speeds. The speeds corresponding to the various regions depend on the parameters of the link protocol.
Year1999
TypeResearch Study Project Report (RSPR)
SchoolSchool of Advanced Technologies
DepartmentDepartment of Information and Communications Technologies (DICT)
Academic Program/FoSTelecommunications (TC)
Chairperson(s)Erke, Tapio J.;
Examination Committee(s)Ahmed, Kazi Mohiuddin;Teerapat Sanguankotchakorn;
Scholarship Donor(s)Asian Institute of Technology Partial Scholarship;
DegreeResearch Studies Project Report (M.Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 1999


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