Spurious TCP Timeouts in 802.11 Networks

David Malone; Douglas J. Leith; Anshuman Aggarwal; Ian Dangerfield

4th International ICST Workshop On Wireless Network Measurement

Research Article

Spurious TCP Timeouts in 802.11 Networks

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.WIOPT2008.3249,
    author={David Malone and Douglas J. Leith and Anshuman Aggarwal and Ian Dangerfield},
    title={Spurious TCP Timeouts in 802.11 Networks},
    proceedings={4th International ICST Workshop On Wireless Network Measurement},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={WINMEE},
    year={2008},
    month={8},
    keywords={Added delay Delay effects Ground penetrating radar History Monitoring Physical layer Propagation losses Time measurement Traffic control Wireless networks},
    doi={10.4108/ICST.WIOPT2008.3249}
}

David Malone
Douglas J. Leith
Anshuman Aggarwal
Ian Dangerfield
Year: 2008
Spurious TCP Timeouts in 802.11 Networks
WINMEE
IEEE
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.WIOPT2008.3249

David Malone¹^,*, Douglas J. Leith¹^,*, Anshuman Aggarwal¹^,*, Ian Dangerfield¹^,*

1: Hamilton Institute, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland

*Contact email: david.malone@nuim.ie, doug.leith@nuim.ie, anshuman.iitdelhi@gmail.com, Ian.Dangerfield@nuim.ie

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate spurious TCP timeouts in 802.11 wireless networks. Though timeouts can be a problem for uploads from an 802.11 network, these timeouts are not spurious but are caused by a bottleneck at the access point. Once this bottleneck is removed, we find that spurious timeouts are rare, even in the face of large changes in numbers of active stations or PHY rate.

Keywords: Added delay Delay effects Ground penetrating radar History Monitoring Physical layer Propagation losses Time measurement Traffic control Wireless networks

Published: 2008-08-01
Publisher: IEEE
Modified: 2010-05-16

: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/ICST.WIOPT2008.3249