The Transport Layer Revisited

Simon  Heimlicher; Rainer Baumann; Martin  May; Bernhard  Plattner

2nd International IEEE Conference on Communication System Software and Middleware

Research Article

The Transport Layer Revisited

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@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

Simon Heimlicher¹^,*, Rainer Baumann¹^,*, Martin May¹^,*, Bernhard Plattner¹^,*

1: Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory, ETH Zurich 8092 Zurich, Switzerland

*Contact email: heimlicher@tik.ee.ethz.ch, baumann@tik.ee.ethz.ch, mayplattner@tik.ee.ethz.ch, plattner@tik.ee.ethz.ch

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.

Keywords: Ad hoc networks Communication system control Computer networks Mobile communication Mobile computing Performance analysis Proposals Telecommunication network reliability Transport protocols Wireless mesh networks

Published: 2007-07-09
Publisher: IEEE
Modified: 2011-07-24

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/COMSWA.2007.382568