TCP/IP illustrated (vol. 1): the protocols
TCP/IP illustrated (vol. 1): the protocols
Random early detection gateways for congestion avoidance
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
MACAW: a media access protocol for wireless LAN's
SIGCOMM '94 Proceedings of the conference on Communications architectures, protocols and applications
Achieving MAC layer fairness in wireless packet networks
MobiCom '00 Proceedings of the 6th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
MACA-P: A MAC for Concurrent Transmissions in Multi-Hop Wireless Networks
PERCOM '03 Proceedings of the First IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications
Analyzing the Short-Term Fairness of IEEE 802.11 in Wireless Multi-Hop Radio Networks
MASCOTS '02 Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems
Experimental Evaluation of TCP Performance in Multi-Hop Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
MASCOTS '04 Proceedings of the The IEEE Computer Society's 12th Annual International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems
Does the IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol work well in multihop wireless ad hoc networks?
IEEE Communications Magazine
Performance benchmarking of wireless Web servers
Ad Hoc Networks
Improving TCP performance over wireless ad hoc networks with busy tone assisted scheme
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
An adaptable MAC protocol in MANETs: a democratic approach
AIC'06 Proceedings of the 6th WSEAS International Conference on Applied Informatics and Communications
A Strict Priority Based QoS-Aware MAC Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
ICDCIT '08 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Internet Technology
TCP improvement in multi-radio multi-channel multi-hop networks
CoNEXT '08 Proceedings of the 2008 ACM CoNEXT Conference
Design of multichannel MAC protocols for wireless ad hoc networks
International Journal of Network Management
SAMA: spectrum agile medium access control for cognitive radios
MILCOM'09 Proceedings of the 28th IEEE conference on Military communications
Service differentiation using priority-based MAC protocol in MANETs
International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology
Enhanced service differentiation using priority-based MAC protocol for MANETs
International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems
Circularity-Based medium access control in mobile ad hoc networks
ADHOC-NOW'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Ad-Hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Networks
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The TCP protocol often suffers from performance problems in conventional single-channel multihop wireless ad hoc networks. The problems arise from hidden node and exposed node issues, which can lead to channel contention in the forward direction between TCP DATA packets that are part of the same TCP flow control window, as well as contention between TCP DATA and TCP ACK packets flowing in opposite directions. In this paper, we propose and evaluate a novel bidirectional multi-channel MAC protocol designed to improve TCP performance over a multihop wireless network. The protocol uses multiple transmission channels at the physical layer to reduce TCP DATA-DATA contention, and bidirectional RTS/CTS channel reservations to reduce TCP DATA-ACK collisions. With four channels, simulation results for static multihop networks show TCP throughput gains of 50% to 180%, compared to a conventional IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol. Fairness is also improved with our protocol, since contention is confined to a short handshake period on the control channel.