适用于卫星网络的TCP跨层改进机制

该文提出基于跨层信息交互,将链路层ARQ重传状态信息通知TCP的机制,避免了链路层重传引起的时延变化对TCP的不利影响。该机制使用完全可靠选择性重传ARQ为TCP提供可靠的链路,避免卫星链路上发生丢包,并且不必要求链路层保证包按序递交,消除了重排序的等待时延,适合带宽时延积较大的卫星网络。仿真结果表明,能显著提高TCP在卫星网中的性能,特别是在误帧率较高条件下。     

一种改善TCP性能的cdma2000链路层RLP重传方案

在无线数据传输网络中,物理层帧差错率(FER)是影响网络性能的一个主要因素。无线链路层重传技术是改善网络性能因无线信道误码率较高而下降的一项重要措施。本文主要研究cdma2000无线网络中链路层重传技术对无线TCP数据传输的影响,提出一种cdma2000链路层重传方案,并通过OPNET仿真技术对该重传方案进行仿真,验证了该方案能改善TCP数据在cdma2000无线网络中的传输性能。     

一种改善TCP性能的链路层重传方案

有线网络中TCP拥塞控制机制是建立在网络丢包的基础之上的,所以该机制不能适应无线网络中高误码率造成的无线链路丢包的情况。无线链路层重传技术是改善网络性能因无线信道误码率较高而下降的一项重要措施。文中研究了WCDMA无线网络中链路层重传技术对无线TCP数据传输的影响,比较两种重传方案,通过OPNET仿真技术对其进行仿真比较,得出其中一种更有效的改善TCP传输性能的方案。     

针对混合应用业务的ARQ改进方案

在高速无线通信中,自动请求重传(ARQ)是链路层不可缺少的技术,它通过重传向上层屏蔽无线链路上包的丢失。随着无线网络的发展,无线传输速率不断提高,应用的业务类型也越来越广泛。目前,众多ARQ技术的研究都集中在如何提高该技术的确认效率,以适应更高的传输速率,但鲜有研究着手于如何使ARQ能够更好地应用于混合业务环境。针对混合业务环境下的ARQ改进提出了2种方案,并给出其中1种在实际应用中的改善效果。     

一种自适应cdma2000无线链路层重传算法

TCP应用是3G无线网络中常用的分组数据业务,而无线网络较大的物理层帧差错率(FER)是影响网络性能的一个主要因素,链路层重传技术是改善网络性能因无线信道误码率大而下降的一项重要措施。主要研究cdma2000中链路层重传技术对无线TCP数据传输的影响。提出一种能改善TCP传输性能的自适应链路层重传算法。通过OPNET仿真工具对该重传算法进行仿真,验证了该算法在一定程度上能提高cdma2000无线网络中的TCP数据传输吞吐量。     

无线网络中TCP与Ipsec的兼容性研究

针对有线网络设计的传输控制协议(TCP),在应用到无线环境中时存在许多不兼容问题,必须对TCP进行修改.目前人们提出了几种对TCP协议在无线网络环境下的改进方案,但是这些改进方案同IP安全协议(IPsec)存在一定的中突.文章分析了IPsec与TCP的改进方案之间的冲突问题,给出了4种解决方案:用传输层安全协议/安全套接层协议(TLS/SSL)代替IPsec、扩展封装安全载荷(ESP)协议、对TCP路径分段和修改IPsec的端到端保护模式,并分析了各方案的优缺点.     

改进无线网络TCP性能的研究

对采用TCP协议传输数据的实现过程及其在无线网络中可能遇到的问题进行了描述。对因无线信道误码率较高和频繁切换而导致网络性能下降的问题,提出了无线链路层快速重传技术改善网络性能的有效措施,并研究了在无线网络中链路层快速重传技术对无线TCP数据传输的影响。仿真表明链路层快速重传可以有效地改善无线TCP的性能,进一步提高了网络利用率和吞吐量。     

一种实用的DF协作无线传感器网络跨层设计

针对前向译码（DF）协作无线传感器网络的特点和要求,探讨基于分集合并和差错控制两种技术的实用跨层设计方案。首先,研究支持DF中继协议的协作传感器网络在目的节点采用等增益合并（EGC）的检测方案。通过和传统的最大比合并（MRC）方案以及最近提出的协作MRC方案综合比较,说明等增益合并是一个具有良好性能的实用方案。然后,把物理层的EGC和数据链路层的自动请求重传（ARQ）结合起来,再进行系统分析。最后,基于EGC和截断ARQ提出一种实用跨层设计方案。     

一种实用的DF协作无线传感器网络跨层设计

针对前向译码(DF)协作无线传感器网络的特点和要求,探讨基于分集合并和差错控制两种技术的实用跨层设计方案。首先,研究支持DF中继协议的协作传感器网络在目的节点采用等增益合并(EGC)的检测方案。通过和传统的最大比合并(MRC)方案以及最近提出的协作MRC方案综合比较,说明等增益合并是一个具有良好性能的实用方案。然后,把物理层的EGC和数据链路层的自动请求重传(ARQ)结合起来,再进行系统分析。最后,基于EGC和截断ARQ提出一种实用跨层设计方案。     

新型跨层移动性管理方案

随着无线通信技术的发展,如何通过现有的各种无线网络为用户提供多样化的服务。即:异构网络融合问题.引起人们的广泛关注。在多种异构无线网络共存的环境中。支持移动用户的无缝移动性是网络向用户提供高质量服务的必要条件。传统移动性管理方案已经无法满足异构无线网络中用户移动性管理的需求。本文采用网络跨层设计的思想。综合研究无线网络的应用层、网络层和无线链路层,提出一种新型的跨层移动性管理方案.并且以WLAN、GSM/GPRS和UMTS之间的交互为例做了详细地描述。     

基于跨层架构的无线TCP优化研究

在无线环境下,传输控制协议(TCP)会受到无线信道条件和分层协议栈独立底层协议的影响。文章结合LTE系统,深入分析现有无线TCP协议运用到LTE系统中的缺陷,提出基于跨层架构的无线TCP优化方案。跨层管理实体综合分析物理层信道状态信息,MAC层调度信息和HARQ信息,RLC自动请求重传ARQ信息以及PDCP切换信息做出全局最优判决。文章所提方案可以优化TCP拥塞控制中慢启动算法、拥塞避免算法以及快速重传算法在无线环境下的效率,提供更好的业务服务质量保障以及用户体验。     

Modeling TCP SACK performance over wireless channels with semi-reliable ARQ/FEC

Providing reliable data communications over wireless channels is a challenging task because time-varying wireless channel characteristics often lead to bit errors. These errors result in loss of IP packets and, consequently, TCP segments encapsulated into these packets. Since TCP cannot distinguish packet losses due to bit corruption from those due to network congestion, any packet loss caused by wireless channel impairments leads to unnecessary execution of the TCP congestion control algorithms and, hence, sub-optimal performance. Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ) and Forward Error Correction (FEC) try to improve communication reliability and reduce packet losses by detecting and recovering corrupted bits. Most analytical models that studied the effect of ARQ and FEC on TCP performance assumed that the ARQ scheme is perfectly persistent (i.e., completely reliable), thus a frame is always successfully transmitted irrespective of the number of transmission attempts it takes. In this paper, we develop an analytical cross-layer model for a TCP connection running over a wireless channel with a semi-reliable ARQ scheme, where the amount of transmission attempts is limited by some number. The model allows to evaluate the joint effect of stochastic properties of the wireless channel characteristics and various implementation-specific parameters on TCP performance, which makes it suitable for performance optimization studies. The input parameters include the bit error rate, the value of the normalized autocorrelation function of bit error observations at lag 1, the strength of the FEC code, the persistency of ARQ, the size of protocol data units at different layers, the raw data rate of the wireless channel, and the bottleneck link buffer size.     

A MAC/PHY cross-layer design for efficient ARQ protocols

In many wireless data systems, automatic repeat request (ARQ) and hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) work independently. In this paper, we introduce a new ARQ feedback scheme called Cross-Layer ARQ (CL-ARQ), where ARQ closely interoperates with HARQ by making use of the acknowledgement of HARQ internally. By doing so, CL-ARQ not only removes the overhead for ARQ acknowledgement messages, but also improves the average delivery delay and TCP throughput. Especially, when the entities in charge of HARQ and ARQ are located far apart geographically, CL-ARQ remarkably outperforms the legacy scheme.     

Improving Wireless TCP Throughput by a Novel TCM-Based Hybrid ARQ

A novel hybrid ARQ (HARQ) scheme using a concatenated two-state trellis-coded modulation (CT-TCM) code is proposed for improving wireless TCP throughput. A distinguished feature of the proposed scheme is that the heavily punctured TCM codes are used for retransmissions of the corrupted data block, which are combined at the receiver with the previously received sequences of the same data block for decoding. By this method, significantly improved coding gain and efficient spectrum utilization can be achieved with very low complexity. A Markov model is developed to evaluate TCP throughput over the proposed HARQ in wireless link. By both analysis and simulation, we demonstrate that compared with other existing TCM-based ARQ schemes, significant improvement of TCP throughput over wireless links is achieved by the proposed CT-TCM HARQ while smaller buffer size is required at the access point.     

On the impact of link layer retransmission schemes on TCP over 4G satellite links

We study the impact of reliability mechanisms introduced at the link layer on the performance of transport protocols in the context of 4G satellite links. Specifically, we design a software module that performs realistic analysis of the network performance, by utilizing real physical layer traces of a 4G satellite service. Based on these traces, our software module produces equivalent link layer traces, as a function of the chosen link layer reliability mechanism. We further utilize the link layer traces within the ns‐2 network simulator to evaluate the impact of link layer schemes on the performance of selected Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) variants. We consider erasure coding, selective‐repeat automatic request (ARQ) and hybrid‐ARQ link layer mechanisms, and TCP Cubic, Compound, Hybla, New Reno and Westwood. We show that, for all target TCP variants, when the throughput of the transport protocol is close to the channel capacity, using the ARQ mechanism is most beneficial for TCP performance improvement. In conditions where the physical channel error rate is high, hybrid‐ARQ results in the best performance for all TCP variants considered, with up to 22% improvements compared to other schemes. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A new ATM adaptation layer for TCP/IP over wireless ATM networks

This paper describes the design and performance of a new ATM adaptation layer protocol (AAL‐T) for improving TCP performance over wireless ATM networks. The wireless links are characterized by higher error rates and burstier error patterns in comparison with the fiber links for which ATM was introduced in the beginning. Since the low performance of TCP over wireless ATM networks is mainly due to the fact that TCP always responds to all packet losses by congestion control, the key idea in the design is to push the error control portion of TCP to the AAL layer so that TCP is only responsible for congestion control. The AAL‐T is based on a novel and reliable ARQ mechanism to support quality‐critical TCP traffic over wireless ATM networks. The proposed AAL protocol has been validated using the OPNET tool with the simulated wireless ATM network. The simulation results show that the AAL‐T provides higher throughput for TCP over wireless ATM networks compared to the existing approach of TCP with AAL 5. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

New ARQ protocols using concatenated codes

Two automatic-repeat-request (ARQ) protocols using a concatenated coding scheme are described. The structure, introduced in a codeword of a concatenated coding scheme, is used to improve the performance of ARQ protocols, especially for high error rates in the communication channel. The performance of the scheme described herein is derived through theoretical analysis. The results show that the proposed scheme outperform other similar ARQ protocols     

Optimal design of hybrid FEC/ARQ schemes for TCP over wireless links with Rayleigh fading

In this paper, we investigate interactions between TCP and wireless hybrid FEC/ARQ schemes. The aim is to understand what is the best configuration of the wireless link protocol in order to guarantee TCP performance and channel efficiency. Interactions between TCP and different link layer mechanisms are evaluated by means of an analytic model that reproduces: 1) a Rayleigh fading channel with FEC coding, 2) a generic selective repeat ARQ Protocol, and 3) the TCP behavior in a wired-cum-wireless network scenario. The analytic model is validated-by means of ns-based simulations. The analysis represents a contribution to the optimal design of link layer parameters of wireless networks crossed by TCP/IP traffic. The main findings can be summarized as follows: 1) fully reliable ARQ protocols are the best choice for both TCP performance and wireless link efficiency and 2) optimal values of FEC redundancy degree from the point of view of energy efficiency maximizes TCP performance as well.     

基于RCPT编码的自适应选择合并混合ARQ算法

混合自动重传请求（ARQ）作为一种差错控制技术被采纳为3GPP长期演进项目（LTE）的关键技术。基于速率兼容截断Turbo（RCPT）编码的混合ARQ算法,因其性能优异、实现复杂度低而被广泛关注。传统混合ARQ算法主要包括Chase合并方式混合ARQ,其在高信噪比条件下提供较大的性能增益;以及增量冗余（IR）方式混合ARQ,其在低信噪比条件下提供了更精确的速率控制。本文结合现有方法提出了一种基于RCPT编码的自适应选择合并混合ARQ算法,它在不同信噪比条件下自适应地选择Chase合并方式混合ARQ与IR方式混合ARQ,并且在接收端自适应地选择合并可靠性较高的传输码块。本文对其在瑞利衰落信道中的性能作了理论分析,并且进行了仿真,同时与传统的Chase合并方式混合ARQ以及IR方式混合ARQ作了性能比较。比较结果显示本文的算法在瑞利信道中比传统算法具有更为优异的性能以及相似的复杂度。