Reliable broadband communication using a burst erasure correcting code
SIGCOMM '90 Proceedings of the ACM symposium on Communications architectures & protocols
A comparison of mechanisms for improving TCP performance over wireless links
Conference proceedings on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Modeling TCP Throughpu: A simple model and its empirical validation
Modeling TCP Throughpu: A simple model and its empirical validation
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Performance Analysis of Wireless TCP
ICOIN '02 Revised Papers from the International Conference on Information Networking, Wireless Communications Technologies and Network Applications-Part II
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This paper describes a robust method of improving TCP performance for terrestrial and satellite wireless networks without modification to TCP or change in its semantics. Tools to transparently improve performance have been around for many years and many work even when the TCP header information is encrypted (e.g., IPSEC) or TCP acknowledgments do not go through the reverse path. Little work has been done; however, to quantify how beneficial these techniques are. Using Protocol Boosters, we show that reducing packet size is critical as bit error rates get worse then 10-5. We also show that over two orders of magnitude improvement in throughput can be achieved by adding redundant FEC packets, with well-chosen parameters for the number of data (k) and parity (h) packets in a block, and a small maximum encode time (t). It is important to note that we are looking strictly at enhancement techniques that do not require modifications at the end hosts, as this can be a difficult task for the typical end user.