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Split TCP for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Overview 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 connections enjoy an unfair advantage over long connections. Furthermore, if the MAC protocol de-fined in the IEEE 802.11 standard is used, the problems exacerbate due to the capture effect induced by this protocol, leading to a larger degree of unfairness and a further degradation of throughput. This paper develops a scheme which is called as Split TCP.
| Publisher | University of California | File Format | |
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| Date Published | August 2002 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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