TY - GEN
T1 - An efficient mechanism of TCP-vegas on mobile IP networks
AU - Ho, Cheng Yuan
AU - Chan, Yi-Cheng
AU - Chen, Yaw Chung
PY - 2006/12/1
Y1 - 2006/12/1
N2 - Mobile IP network provides hosts the connectivity to the Internet while changing locations. However, when using TCP Vegas over a mobile network, it may respond to a handoff by invoking a congestion control algorithm, thereby resulting in performance degradation, because TCP Vegas is sensitive to the change of RTT (Round-Trip Time) and it may recognize the increased RTT as a result of network congestion. Since TCP Vegas could not differentiate whether the increased RTT is due to route change or network congestion. This work investigates how to improve the performance of Vegas after a Mobile IP handoff and proposes a variation of TCP Vegas, so-called DemoVegas, which is able to detect the movement of two end-hosts of a connection, and re-measure the BaseRTT (Minimum RoundTrip Time) if necessary. The proposed mechanism maintains end-to-end semantics, and operates under the existing network infrastructure. Demo-Vegas presents a simple modification in the two end sides of a connection and uses one reserved bit in TCP header. Simulation results demonstrate that Demo-Vegas features higher performance than Vegas in Mobile IP networks.
AB - Mobile IP network provides hosts the connectivity to the Internet while changing locations. However, when using TCP Vegas over a mobile network, it may respond to a handoff by invoking a congestion control algorithm, thereby resulting in performance degradation, because TCP Vegas is sensitive to the change of RTT (Round-Trip Time) and it may recognize the increased RTT as a result of network congestion. Since TCP Vegas could not differentiate whether the increased RTT is due to route change or network congestion. This work investigates how to improve the performance of Vegas after a Mobile IP handoff and proposes a variation of TCP Vegas, so-called DemoVegas, which is able to detect the movement of two end-hosts of a connection, and re-measure the BaseRTT (Minimum RoundTrip Time) if necessary. The proposed mechanism maintains end-to-end semantics, and operates under the existing network infrastructure. Demo-Vegas presents a simple modification in the two end sides of a connection and uses one reserved bit in TCP header. Simulation results demonstrate that Demo-Vegas features higher performance than Vegas in Mobile IP networks.
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U2 - 10.1109/INFOCOM.2006.338
DO - 10.1109/INFOCOM.2006.338
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:39049110260
SN - 1424402212
SN - 9781424402212
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM
BT - Proceedings - INFOCOM 2006
T2 - INFOCOM 2006: 25th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications
Y2 - 23 April 2006 through 29 April 2006
ER -