ATCP: TCP for mobile ad hoc networks

ATCP: TCP for mobile ad hoc networks

Transport connections set up in wireless ad hoc networks are plagued by problems such as high bit error rates, frequent route changes, and partitions. If we run transmission control protocol (TCP) over such connections, the throughput of the connection is observed to be extremely poor because TCP treats lost or delayed acknowledgments as congestion. In this paper, we present an approach where w...

ATCP: TCP for Mobile Ad Ho Networks

Split TCP for mobile ad hoc networks

The fairness and throughput of TCP suffer when it is used in mobile ad hoc networks. This is a direct consequence of TCP wrongly attributing packet losses due to link failures (a consequence of mobility) to congestion. While this problem causes an overall degradation of throughput, it especially affects connections with a large number of hops, where link failures are more likely. Thus, short co...

TCP Performance in Mobile Ad hoc Networks

In this paper, we present a survey of TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) protocol for better performance in the MANET (Mobile Ad Hoc Network). After a short presentation of the main features of TCP, we give the most important problems from which TCP suffer in MANET. We present after that some approaches proposed in the literature in order to improve its performance. Our paper contains also a p...

TCP in Wireless Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) raises a number of issues when required to work in a wireless environment. In particular, within an ad hoc network, where changes can happen somewhat quickly and unpredictably, it has to deal with new tough challenges such as high probability of both network partition and route failures due to mobility. In order to adapt TCP to this demanding paradigm, so...