Improving TCP Performance on CSMA/CA Connections

Hu, Hao; Kachan, Dmitry; Siemens, Eduard

doi:10.13142/kt10002.10

Proceedings of International Conference on Applied Innovation in IT · 2014/03/27 · Vol. 2 · Issue 1 · pp. 61–65

Improving TCP Performance on CSMA/CA Connections

Hao Hu, Dmitry Kachan, Eduard Siemens

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Abstract

In IP networks, most of packets, that have been dropped, are recovered after the expiration of retransmission timeouts. These can result in unnecessary retransmissions and needless reduction of congestion window. An inappropriate retransmission timeout has a huge impact on TCP performance. In this paper we have proved that CSMA/CA mechanism can cause TCP retransmissions due to CSMA/CA effects. For this we have observed three wireless connections that use CSMA/CA: with good link quality, poor link quality and in presence of cross traffic. The measurements have been performed using real devices. Through tracking of each transmitted packet it is possible to analyze the relation between one-way delay and packet loss probability and the cumulative distribution of distances between peaks of OWDs. The distribution of OWDs and the distances between peaks of OWDs are the most important parameters of tuning TCP retransmission timeout on CSMA/CA networks. A new perspective through investigating the dynamical relation between one-way delay and packet loss ratio depending on the link quality to enhance the TCP performance has been provided.

Keywords

CSMA/CA TCP performance retransmission timeout wireless

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