Unidirectional links prove costly in wireless ad hoc networks
DIALM '99 Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Discrete algorithms and methods for mobile computing and communications
Analysis of TCP performance over mobile ad hoc networks
MobiCom '99 Proceedings of the 5th annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Mobile computing and networking
A comparison of TCP performance over three routing protocols for mobile ad hoc networks
MobiHoc '01 Proceedings of the 2nd ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking & computing
Analysis of TCP performance over mobile ad hoc networks
Wireless Networks - Selected Papers from Mobicom'99
TCP/IP over the Bluetooth Wireless Ad-hoc Network
NETWORKING '00 Proceedings of the IFIP-TC6 / European Commission International Conference on Broadband Communications, High Performance Networking, and Performance of Communication Networks
ATP: a reliable transport protocol for ad-hoc networks
Proceedings of the 4th ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking & computing
Link layer-based TCP optimisation for disconnecting networks
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Proceedings of the 10th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
A counterexample in congestion control of wireless networks
MSWiM '05 Proceedings of the 8th ACM international symposium on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
ATP: A Reliable Transport Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
A Smart TCP Acknowledgment Approach for Multihop Wireless Networks
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Markov and multifractal wavelet models for wireless MAC-to-MAC channels
Performance Evaluation
A counterexample in congestion control of wireless networks
Performance Evaluation
Aggressive Error Recovery for TCP over wireless links
Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering
TCP-M: multiflow transmission control protocol for ad hoc networks
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
Unequal error protection for real-time video in mobile ad hoc networks via multi-path transport
Computer Communications
Discovering long lifetime routes in mobile ad hoc networks
Ad Hoc Networks
Understanding congestion control in multi-hop wireless mesh networks
Proceedings of the 14th ACM international conference on Mobile computing and networking
APS-FeW: Improving TCP throughput over multihop adhoc networks
Computer Communications
An adaptive transmission control scheme based on TCP vegas in MANETs
MSN'07 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Mobile ad-hoc and sensor networks
Incorporating TCP acknowledgements in MAC layer in IEEE 802.11 multihop ad hoc networks
GLOBECOM'09 Proceedings of the 28th IEEE conference on Global telecommunications
A proxy-based architecture for TCP to mitigate packet loss on wireless networks
WD'09 Proceedings of the 2nd IFIP conference on Wireless days
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking - Special issue on simulators and experimental testbeds design and development for wireless networks
On the potential of IEEE 802.11s intra-mesh congestion control
Proceedings of the 13th ACM international conference on Modeling, analysis, and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
Explicit congestion control for efficient reliable transport in IP-based tactical networks
MILCOM'06 Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE conference on Military communications
A congestion window adjustment scheme for improving TCP performance over mobile ad-hoc networks
ADHOC-NOW'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Ad-Hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Networks
TCP performance in cognitive multi-radio mesh networks
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Cognitive Radio and Advanced Spectrum Management
A prompt retransmit technique to improve TCP performance for mobile ad hoc networks
ICCSA'05 Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on Computational Science and its Applications - Volume Part I
WXCP: explicit congestion control for wireless multi-hop networks
IWQoS'05 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Quality of Service
An optimized TCP for internet access of vehicular ad hoc networks
NETWORKING'05 Proceedings of the 4th IFIP-TC6 international conference on Networking Technologies, Services, and Protocols; Performance of Computer and Communication Networks; Mobile and Wireless Communication Systems
Selective route-request scheme for on-demand routing protocols in ad hoc networks
ADHOC-NOW'05 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Ad-Hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Networks
TCP performance optimizations for wireless sensor networks
EWSN'12 Proceedings of the 9th European conference on Wireless Sensor Networks
Understanding bandwidth-delay product in mobile ad hoc networks
Computer Communications
Neighborhood-centric congestion control for multihop wireless mesh networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
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Ad-hoc networks are completely wireless networks of mobile hosts, in which the topology rapidly changes due to the movement of mobile hosts. This frequent topology may lead to sudden packet losses and delays. Transport protocols like TCP have been built mainly for reliable, fixed networks. Hence, when used in ad-hoc networks, TCP misinterprets this loss as congestion and invokes congestion control. This leads to unnecessary retransmissions and loss of throughput. To overcome this problem, a feedback scheme is proposed, so that the source can distinguish between route failure and network congestion. When a route is disrupted, the source is sent a Route Failure Notification(RFN) packet, allowing it to freeze its timers and stop sending packets. When the route is re-established, the source is informed through a Route Re-establishment Notification (RRN) packet, upon which it resumes by un-freezing timers and continuing packet transmissions. The simulated performance of TCP on ad-hoc networks with and without feedback is compared and reported. It is observed that in the event of route failures, as the route re-establishment time increases, the use of feedback provides significant gains in throughput as well as savings in unnecessary packet transmissions. Several further enhancements and directions for future work are also sketched.