Improving TCP/IP performance over wireless networks
MobiCom '95 Proceedings of the 1st annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
M-TCP: TCP for mobile cellular networks
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Mobile communications
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Transmission control protocol (TCP) has been designed and tuned as a reliable transfer protocol for wired links. However, it incurs end-to-end performance degradation in mobile environments. Recent years, many protocols have been proposed to enhance the performance of TCP in mobile environments. Although these methods simulate better than original TCP, but they either need intermediaries (such as base station) to modify TCP, can not handle the end-to-end encrypted traffic or do not perform well in both high bit error rates and disconnections. In this paper, we propose a protocol named adaptive TCP, which is a combination of TCP HACK (Header Checksum Option) and Freeze-TCP. By using the adaptive TCP, we can get a true end-to-end TCP and improve the performance of TCP over mobile environments in both high bit error rates and disconnections. We use OPNET to simulate our proposal, the results have shown that our proposal performs substantially better than original TCP in cases where there are bursty corruptions and long or frequent disconnections.