Wireless transport layer congestion control evaluation
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-30-2013
Abstract
The performance of transport layer protocols can be affected differently due to wireless congestion, as opposed to network congestion. Using an active network evaluation strategy in a real world test-bed experiment, the Transport Control Protocol (TCP), Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP), and Stream Control Transport Protocol (SCTP) were evaluated to determine their effectiveness in terms of throughput, fairness, and smoothness. Though TCP's fairness was shown to suffer in wireless congestion, the results showed that it still outperforms the alternative protocols in both wireless congestion, and network congestion. In terms of smoothness, the TCP-like congestion control algorithm of DCCP did outperform TCP in wireless congestion, but at the expense of throughput and ensuing fairness. SCTP's congestion control algorithm was also found to provide better smoothness in wireless congestion. In fact, it provided smoother throughput performance than in the network congestion.
Publication Title
Security, Design, and Architecture for Broadband and Wireless Network Technologies
First Page
241
Last Page
250
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.4018/978-1-4666-3902-7.ch017
ISBN
9781466639058,9781466639034
Citation Information
Ahuja, & Shore, W. R. (2011). Wireless Transport Layer Congestion Control Evaluation. International Journal of Wireless Networks and Broadband Technologies, 1(3), 71–81. https://doi.org/10.4018/ijwnbt.2011070105