Research Article
The Transport Layer Revisited
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/COMSWA.2007.382568, author={Simon Heimlicher and Rainer Baumann and Martin May and Bernhard Plattner}, title={The Transport Layer Revisited}, proceedings={2nd International IEEE Conference on Communication System Software and Middleware}, publisher={IEEE}, proceedings_a={COMSWARE}, year={2007}, month={7}, keywords={Ad hoc networks Communication system control Computer networks Mobile communication Mobile computing Performance analysis Proposals Telecommunication network reliability Transport protocols Wireless mesh networks}, doi={10.1109/COMSWA.2007.382568} }- Simon Heimlicher
Rainer Baumann
Martin May
Bernhard Plattner
Year: 2007
The Transport Layer Revisited
COMSWARE
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/COMSWA.2007.382568
Abstract
End-to-end transport protocols such as TCP perform poorly in mobile environments, primarily due to their inability to cope with the dynamics incurred by node mobility. We re-consider the design decisions that lead to the end-to-end design of the transport layer. To this end, we present a framework for reliable hop-by-hop transport protocols. Based on this framework, we design and evaluate such a protocol and compare its performance to TCP. Overall, our hop-by-hop protocol achieves up to 3 times faster delivery of messages in our experiments with mobile networks. We conclude that hop-by-hop protocols might be more suitable for reliable communication in mobile networks than end-to-end protocols.
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