scholarly journals Performance evaluation and improvement of IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol in wireless ad-hoc networks

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhifei Li
Keyword(s):  
Performance Evaluation ◽  
Ad Hoc Networks ◽  
Ieee 802.11 ◽  
Wireless Ad Hoc Networks ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Mac Protocol ◽  
Ieee 802.11 Mac ◽  
Ieee 802.11 Mac Protocol ◽  
Hoc Networks ◽  
802.11 Mac

Improving Throughput of Starved TCP Flow by Sidestepping Bottleneck Nodes Using Concurrent Transmission

2012 ◽  
pp. 47-60
Author(s):  
Rajesh Verma ◽  
Arun Prakash ◽  
Rajeev Tripathi ◽  
Neeraj Tyagi
Keyword(s):  
Congestion Control ◽  
Ieee 802.11 ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Mac Protocol ◽  
Concurrent Transmission ◽  
Ieee 802.11 Mac ◽  
Ieee 802.11 Mac Protocol ◽  
Congestion Control Mechanism ◽  
Hoc Networks ◽  
802.11 Mac

The TCP congestion control mechanism along with unfairness problem poses poor performance when IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol is used in multi-hop ad hoc networks because the traditional TCP has poor interaction with the IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol. Because of the greedy nature of TCP, starvation problem of TCP flows with longer paths is severe. In this paper, we first illustrate that the fairness, congestion control and medium contention are closely coupled issues and the spatial reuse of the channel can improve the performance of wireless ad hoc network. By using concurrent transmission protocol at the MAC layer, like CTMAC, in multi-hop networks we can achieve simultaneous transmissions within the interference regions. Further, we illustrate with extensive simulations in ns-2 that by scheduling multiple concurrent transmissions along the path links, the starvation problem due to greedy nature of TCP can be eliminated and ensuing higher flow throughput and lower end-to-end delay.

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