4th International ICST Workshop On Wireless Network Measurement

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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
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