Congestion avoidance and control
SIGCOMM '88 Symposium proceedings on Communications architectures and protocols
TCP/IP illustrated (vol. 1): the protocols
TCP/IP illustrated (vol. 1): the protocols
A comparison of mechanisms for improving TCP performance over wireless links
Conference proceedings on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
WTCP: a reliable transport protocol for wireless wide-area networks
MobiCom '99 Proceedings of the 5th annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Improving TCP performance over mobile networks
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Symbiotic Streaming of Elastic Traffic on Interactive Transport
ISCC '03 Proceedings of the Eighth IEEE International Symposium on Computers and Communications
Comparative study of various TCP versions over a wireless link with correlated losses
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Towards TCP-Friendly Adaptive Multimedia Applications Based on RTP
ISCC '99 Proceedings of the The Fourth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications
A survey of active network research
IEEE Communications Magazine
A survey on TCP-friendly congestion control
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
Symbiotic rate adaptation for time sensitive elastic traffic with interactive transport
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
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The layered rigid organization of traditional network service stack currently poses several problems in service evolution and versatility. The 'Programmable' and 'Active' network paradigms offer to solve such problems by allowing arbitrary custom codes to be embedded inside network layers. We propose a less radical approach in which required service state information can be pulled-up to the upper layer where 'actions' are performed by programmable components, and generated 'actions' are pushed down into the network layer. This approach relives lower network layers from housing costly custom components and addresses other practical issues like security and flexibility. We call this mechanism 'Interactive Transparent Networking'. In this paper, we explain the mechanism and its advantages in creating TCP-friendly applications. We also show by example how it can be used as a protocol augmentation tool by modeling two well-known protocols proposed in the literature to improve TCP performance over wireless networks: Snoop [H. Balakrishnan, S. Seshan, and R. Katz, Improving reliable transport and handoff performance in cellular wireless networks, ACM Wireless Networks 1 (1995)] and WTCP [P. Sinha, N. Venkitaraman, R. Sivakumar, V. Bharghavan, WTCP: a reliable transport protocol for wireless wide-area networks, Proceedings of ACM Mobicom'99, Seattle, WA, pp. 231-241].