TCP在无线通信中的问题及解决方案

TCP协议最初是为有线网络而设计的。在有线网络中随机比特差锗率是可以忽略的。拥塞主要是由包丢失造成的。很多研究都表明未修改的标准TCP协议在无线环境中的性能是很差的,因为它无法区分出数据包的丢失是由于拥塞还是传输差错。本文分析TCP在无线IP通信环境中存在的问题,并详细给出相应的解决方案。     

无线网络中传输控制协议的研究

传统TCP(传输控制协议)拥塞控制协议本是为有线网络设计,它假设包丢失完全是由网络拥塞引起。在无线网络环境下除了拥塞丢包外,还存在较高的比特误码率、路由故障等因素引起的丢包现象。当出现非拥塞丢包时,传统TCP将错误地触发拥塞控制,从而引起TCP性能低下。文章在分析传统TCP在无线网络中存在问题的基础上,对目前无线TCP发展和技术进行归纳和比较,进一步给出无线传输协议的研究和发展方向。     

TCP在无线通信中存在的问题及解决方案

TCP和IP协议非常简单且可靠,它们的组合决定了目前的大多数通信方式(从有线骨干网到混合网)。TCP协议最初是为有线网络而设计的,目前已成为大多数应用事实上的标准。在有线网络中随机比特差错率可以忽略,拥塞主要由包丢失造成。很多研究都表明未修改的TCP协议在无线环境中的性能很差,因为它无法区分数据包的丢失是由于拥塞还是传输差错造成的。文章分析了TCP在无线IP通信中存在的问题,详细给出了相应的解决方案。     

TCP在无线通信中的问题以及解决方案

由于TCP/IP协议非常简单且可靠，所以它们的组合决定了目前的大多数通信方式（从有线骨干网到混合网）。现在TCP协议已经成为大多数应用事实上的标准。TCP协议最初是为有线网络而设计的。在有线网络中随机比特差错率是可以忽略的。拥塞主要是由包丢失造成的。很多研究都表明未修改的标准TCP协议在无线环境中的性能是很差的，因为它无法区分出数据包的丢失是由于拥塞还是传输差错。分析了TCP在无线IP通信环境中存在的问题，并详细给出相应的解决方案。     

随机回退的TCP拥塞控制算法

 面对目前大量使用弃尾队列管理的网络中间节点,提出了一种随机回退的TCP拥塞控制算法TCP Njust,拥塞时在一定范围内随机减少拥塞窗口,拥塞避免时其拥塞窗口在一定范围内随机增加,以减缓TCP全局同步.该算法在Newreno基础上增加了一个随机函数,仿真表明该算法的性能优于Newreno,在网络突发数据流较多时,其性能优于Vegas,适合在Internet上使用.     

卫星网中基于时间戳的TCP拥塞控制算法研究

TCP(传输控制协议)拥塞控制机制直接使用在卫星网中存在很多不足。针对卫星网通信时延长、网络环境变化复杂的特点，利用TCP协议中的时间戳扩展选项，设计实现了一种改进的TCP重传和拥塞控制算法，能够根据RTr(Round Trip Time，往返时间)的变化对网络情况进行预测，从而及时重传数据包并调整窗口大小，仿真实验证明改进算法能够很好地提高TCP性能。     

TCP拥塞控制技术研究

TCP拥塞控制机制对Internet的稳定运行起着重要作用.针对三种典型的TCP拥塞控制算法--Tahoe、Reno和Vegas的性能作出分析,Tahoe和Reno是目前TCP拥塞控制中最常用的;Vegas是在对Reno的发送端算法进行修改的基础上提出的一种拥塞控制算法.最后,对这些算法做了详细的比较和总结,并指出了进一步改进TCP拥塞控制的必要性.     

在Ad Hoc网络中TCP-SACK性能研究及改进

在Ad Hoc网中,经常发生链路失效和路由变化。TCP把数据包的丢失归结为链路拥塞,所以TCP在Ad Hoc网中表现很差。在本文中通过应用一种新的方法,基于传输包乱序检测与响应方法,研究TCP在Ad Hoc网中的性能。通过实验结果表明,此算法解决了,提高了网络的吞吐量。     

TCP拥塞控制技术初探

首先探讨了网络拥塞出现的原因,然后分析了TCP拥塞控制的原理及四个TCP拥塞控制算法的性能,接着着重论述了TCP拥塞控制所面临的问题和对应算法的改进,最后提出了其进一步的研究方向。     

一种基于模糊逻辑的主动队列管理算法

主动队列管理 (ActiveQueueManagement,AQM)技术作为Internet拥塞控制的一种有效方法 ,对于提高In ternet的服务质量具有十分重要的作用 .本文根据TCP拥塞控制算法基于数据包丢失的窗口变化机制 ,设计了一种基于模糊逻辑的主动队列管理算法 .该算法依据路由器中队列长度的变化情况 ,根据一定的模糊自校正原则来调整数据包的丢弃概率 ,从而使路由器中的队列长度稳定在参考值附近 .仿真结果表明该算法不但十分有效 ,而且对不同的网络状况具有很好的适应能力 .     

TCP Veno: TCP enhancement for transmission over wireless access networks

Wireless access networks in the form of wireless local area networks, home networks, and cellular networks are becoming an integral part of the Internet. Unlike wired networks, random packet loss due to bit errors is not negligible in wireless networks, and this causes significant performance degradation of transmission control protocol (TCP). We propose and study a novel end-to-end congestion control mechanism called TCP Veno that is simple and effective for dealing with random packet loss. A key ingredient of Veno is that it monitors the network congestion level and uses that information to decide whether packet losses are likely to be due to congestion or random bit errors. Specifically: (1) it refines the multiplicative decrease algorithm of TCP Reno-the most widely deployed TCP version in practice-by adjusting the slow-start threshold according to the perceived network congestion level rather than a fixed drop factor and (2) it refines the linear increase algorithm so that the connection can stay longer in an operating region in which the network bandwidth is fully utilized. Based on extensive network testbed experiments and live Internet measurements, we show that Veno can achieve significant throughput improvements without adversely affecting other concurrent TCP connections, including other concurrent Reno connections. In typical wireless access networks with 1% random packet loss rate, throughput improvement of up to 80% can be demonstrated. A salient feature of Veno is that it modifies only the sender-side protocol of Reno without changing the receiver-side protocol stack.     

A Novel Wireless TCP and its Steady State Throughput Model

1　Introduction　WiththegrowthofwirelessnetworksandtheInter net,thedatatransmissionserviceoverwirelessnet worksbecomesmoreattractive .InthecurrentInternet,TCPiswidelyusedinpopularapplicationslikeTelnet,FTP ,andHTTP .　TCPisareliableconnection oriented protocolthatimplementscongestioncontrolbymeansofaslidingwindowalgorithm .TCPTahoeandReno[1～ 2 ] ,whichmakeuseoftheSlowStart (SS)andCongestionAvoid ance (CA)algorithmstoadjustthewindowsize ,havegotmuchsuccessintheInternet.Inparticular…     

Retransmission loss recovery by duplicate acknowledgment counting

The performance of transmission control protocol (TCP) is largely dependent upon its loss recovery. Therefore, it is a very important issue whether the packet losses may be recovered without retransmission timeout (RTO) or not. TCP always evokes RTO if a retransmitted packet is lost again. In order to alleviate this problem, we propose an algorithm called duplicate acknowledgment counting (DAC). We use a stochastic model to evaluate the performance of DAC, and compare it with TCP NewReno. Numerical results evaluated by simulations show that DAC can improve TCP loss recovery significantly in presence of random losses.     

TCP-Jersey for wireless IP communications

Improving the performance of the transmission control protocol (TCP) in wireless Internet protocol (IP) communications has been an active research area. The performance degradation of TCP in wireless and wired-wireless hybrid networks is mainly due to its lack of the ability to differentiate the packet losses caused by network congestions from the losses caused by wireless link errors. In this paper, we propose a new TCP scheme, called TCP-Jersey, which is capable of distinguishing the wireless packet losses from the congestion packet losses, and reacting accordingly. TCP-Jersey consists of two key components, the available bandwidth estimation (ABE) algorithm and the congestion warning (CW) router configuration. ABE is a TCP sender side addition that continuously estimates the bandwidth available to the connection and guides the sender to adjust its transmission rate when the network becomes congested. CW is a configuration of network routers such that routers alert end stations by marking all packets when there is a sign of an incipient congestion. The marking of packets by the CW configured routers helps the sender of the TCP connection to effectively differentiate packet losses caused by network congestion from those caused by wireless link errors. This paper describes the design of TCP-Jersey, and presents results from experiments using the NS-2 network simulator. Results from simulations show that in a congestion free network with 1% of random wireless packet loss rate, TCP-Jersey achieves 17% and 85% improvements in goodput over TCP-Westwood and TCP-Reno, respectively; in a congested network where TCP flow competes with VoIP flows, with 1% of random wireless packet loss rate, TCP-Jersey achieves 9% and 76% improvements in goodput over TCP-Westwood and TCP-Reno, respectively. Our experiments of multiple TCP flows show that TCP-Jersey maintains the fair and friendly behavior with respect to other TCP flows.     

Enhancement of TCP over wired/wireless networks with packet loss classifiers inferred by supervised learning

TCP is suboptimal in heterogeneous wired/wireless networks because it reacts in the same way to losses due to congestion and losses due to link errors. In this paper, we propose to improve TCP performance in wired/wireless networks by endowing it with a classifier that can distinguish packet loss causes. In contrast to other proposals we do not change TCP’s congestion control nor TCP’s error recovery. A packet loss whose cause is classified as link error will simply be ignored by TCP’s congestion control and recovered as usual, while a packet loss classified as congestion loss will trigger both mechanisms as usual. To build our classification algorithm, a database of pre-classified losses is gathered by simulating a large set of random network conditions, and classification models are automatically built from this database by using supervised learning methods. Several learning algorithms are compared for this task. Our simulations of different scenarios show that adding such a classifier to TCP can improve the throughput of TCP substantially in wired/wireless networks without compromizing TCP-friendliness in both wired and wireless environments.     

MANET中TCP性能改进研究

TCP是为有线网络所设计的,其拥塞控制机制中,假设丢包是由网络拥塞造成的这一结论在MANET中不再适用。MANET中的高信道误码率,路由频繁中断等因素都会造成丢包。TCP错误的将所有丢包事件都当作拥塞处理,造成了传输性能的极大下降。文中首先总结了MANET中导致TCP传输性能下降的主要原因,然后对现有的一些典型TCP改进方案进行了讨论,最后对这些技术方案进行了比较,并指出今后研究的重点。     

Comparison of FEC types with regard to the efficiency of TCP connections over AWGN satellite channels

Optimizing the end-to-end throughput of a TCP connection (goodput) over geostationary satellite links is a challenging research topic. This is because the high delay-bandwidth product, together with a non-negligible random loss of packets, is a condition that considerably differs from the environments TCP was originally designed for. As a result, TCP performance is significantly impaired by the channel bit error rate. The literature is full of suggestions for improving TCP goodput, most based on modifications of the protocol itself. We only investigated the application of different FEC (forward error correction) types for TCP goodput optimization, leaving the end-to-end protocol unaltered. Using a method midway between analysis and simulation to evaluate the goodput of TCP long-lived connections, we first studied the influence of packet loss rate, introduced by errors on the channel, on the TCP goodput. We showed that, in some cases, the packet loss rate does not need to be negligible with respect to that caused by congestion, as it is widely-held opinion. We then applied physical-level FEC techniques, such as convolutional encoding/Viterbi decoding, Reed Solomon, link-level erasure codes and their combinations, over a wide field of signal to noise conditions of the satellite channel. For each FEC type, we found the FEC rate that maximizes the TCP goodput, in each channel condition. We finally compared the results of all FECs used between them, and presented the case of multiple TCP connections sharing the same link as well     

A comparison of active queue management algorithms using the OPNETModeler

A number of active queue management algorithms for TCP/IP networks such as random early detection (RED), stabilized RED (SRED), BLUE, and dynamic RED (DRED) have been proposed in the past few years. This article presents a comparative study of these algorithms using simulations. The evaluation is done using the OPNET Modeler, which provides a convenient and easy-to-use platform for simulating large-scale networks. The performance metrics used in the study are queue size, packet drop probability, and packet loss rate. The study shows that, among the four algorithms, SIZED and DRED are more effective at stabilizing the queue size and controlling the packet loss rate while maintaining high link utilization. The benefits of stabilized queues in a network are high resource utilization, bounded delays, more certain buffer provisioning, and,traffic-load-independent network performance in terms of traffic intensity and number of TCP connections     

一种基于链路带宽估计的无线TCP改进算法

本文提出了一种能够通过带宽估计来判断无线链路报文段丢失原因,并采取相应拥塞控制机制的无线TCP算法-TCP_LD(TCP Loss Detection).文章采用Padhye模型的建模方法,推导了TCP_LD的稳态流量模型.理论分析和仿真结果说明,TCP_LD能够有效的区分出发生报文段丢失的原因,即拥塞丢失或者链路突发差错,从而提高系统的流量.