Enhancement of the TCP module in the OMNeT++/INET framework

Thomas  Reschka; Thomas  Dreibholz; Jobin  Pulinthanath; Martin  Becke; Erwin  Rathgeb

3rd International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques

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Enhancement of the TCP module in the OMNeT++/INET framework

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2010.8834,
    author={Thomas  Reschka and Thomas  Dreibholz and Jobin  Pulinthanath and Martin  Becke and Erwin  Rathgeb},
    title={Enhancement of the TCP module in the OMNeT++/INET framework},
    proceedings={3rd International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques},
    publisher={ICST},
    proceedings_a={SIMUTOOLS},
    year={2010},
    month={5},
    keywords={OMNeT++ INET Framework TCP Selective Acknowledgement Flow Control},
    doi={10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2010.8834}
}

Thomas Reschka
Thomas Dreibholz
Jobin Pulinthanath
Martin Becke
Erwin Rathgeb
Year: 2010
Enhancement of the TCP module in the OMNeT++/INET framework
SIMUTOOLS
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2010.8834

Thomas Reschka¹^,*, Thomas Dreibholz¹^,*, Jobin Pulinthanath¹^,*, Martin Becke¹^,*, Erwin Rathgeb¹^,*

1: University of Duisburg-Essen, Institute for Experimental Mathematics, Ellernstrasse 29, 45326 Essen, Germany.

*Contact email: t.reschka@gmx.de, dreibh@iem.uni-due.de, jp@iem.uni-due.de, martin.becke@iem.uni-due.de, rathgeb@iem.uni-due.de

Abstract

The INET framework for the simulation tool OM-NeT++ provides a TCP module, which can be used for evaluating various Internet applications. However, the implementation of this TCP module has not been state of the art. Some important features of modern TCP implementations - particularly Selective Acknowledgements (SACK) and a complete Flow Control - have been missing. In this paper, we first introduce basicTCPmechanisms. After that, we introduce the extensions we have made to theTCPmodule of INET. Finally, we show some results of our performance evaluation.

Keywords: OMNeT++ INET Framework TCP Selective Acknowledgement Flow Control

Published: 2010-05-16
Publisher: ICST

: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2010.8834