MANET中TCP改进研究综述

传统TCP(transmission control protocol)本是为有线网络设计,它假设包丢失全是由网络拥塞引起,这个假设不能适应于MANET (mobile ad hoc network),因为MANET中除了拥塞丢包以外,还存在由于较高比特误码率、路由故障等因素引起的丢包现象.当出现非拥塞因素丢包时,传统TCP将错误地触发拥塞控制,从而引起TCP性能低下.任何改进机制都可以分为发现问题和解决问题两个阶段.首先概括了MANET中影响TCP性能的若干问题;然后针对发现问题和解决问题两个阶段,详细地对每一阶段中存在的各种可行方法进行了分类、分析和比较;最后指出了MANET中TCP性能优化的研究方向.

Improving TCP Performance over MANET: A Survey

As originally designed for wired networks, TCP (transmission control protocol) congestion control mechanism is triggered into action when packet loss is detected. This implicit assumption for packet loss mostly due to network congestion does not work well in Mobile Ad Hoc Network, where there is a comparatively high likelihood of packet loss due to high bit error rate (BER) and node roaming. Such non-congestion packet loss, when dealt with by congestion control mechanism, causes poor TCP performance in MANET. All improvement mechanisms have two distinct phases: problem detection and problem solving. This paper attempts to address this problem by first summarizing over several major reasons for such mis-behavior, an in-depth analysis and the detailed comparison between different solutions are proposed to improve at each of the two phases. Finally, some new research directions for optimizing TCP performance in MANET (mobile ad hoc network) are suggested.