TCP throughput performance in IEEE 802.11-based multi-hop wireless networks

Min Shen; Dongmei Zhao

3rd International ICST Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks

Research Article

TCP throughput performance in IEEE 802.11-based multi-hop wireless networks

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    author={Min Shen and Dongmei Zhao},
    title={TCP throughput performance in IEEE 802.11-based multi-hop wireless networks},
    proceedings={3rd International ICST Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks},
    publisher={ACM},
    proceedings_a={QSHINE},
    year={2006},
    month={8},
    keywords={},
    doi={10.1145/1185373.1185403}
}

Min Shen
Dongmei Zhao
Year: 2006
TCP throughput performance in IEEE 802.11-based multi-hop wireless networks
QSHINE
ACM
DOI: 10.1145/1185373.1185403

Min Shen¹^,*, Dongmei Zhao¹^,*

1: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMaster University, Canada.

*Contact email: shenm2@mcmaster.ca, dzhao@mail.ece.mcmaster.ca

Abstract

This paper studies TCP throughput performance in IEEE 802.11-based multi-hop wireless networks where nodes can have different physical transmission modes, e.g., modulation schemes and packet transmission rates. The physical transmission modes affect the link layer transmission performance, which further affects the TCP throughput performance. Selecting the TCP congestion window size is important for improving TCP throughput. We use simulation to demonstrate the effect of different physical layer modes on the TCP throughput performance and find the optimal TCP window size upper bound.

Published: 2006-08-09
Publisher: ACM

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1185373.1185403