Lecture 10: TCP in Wireless Networks

February 22, 2002

Preparation:

For the next two lectures we are moving up to TCP. While the network layer may have attempted to hide the mobility from upper layers (through Mobile-IP or ad-hoc routing), its effects are still largely visible to TCP. We will look into the list of problems that are caused by node mobility and wireless links and how other people are dealing with them.

Student presentation paper is in Part III (TCP)

Lecture Notes:

Homework

Papers (Required)

  1. R. Caceres and L. Iftode, "Improving the performance of reliable transport protocols in mobile computing environments," IEEE JSAC, Vol. 13, No. 5, (Jun 1995), pp. 850-857.
  2. A. Bakre and B. Badrinath, "Implementation and performance evaluation of Indirect TCP," IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 46, No. 3, (Mar 1997), pp. 260-278.
  3. H. Balakrishnan, V. Padmanabhan, S. Seshan, and R. Katz, "A comparison of mechanisms for improving TCP performance over wireless links," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, December 1997.

Other References (Recommended)

    Tutorials

  1. Prof. Nitin Vaidya's tutorial on TCP over Wireless Networks and reference list.

    Papers

  2. H. Balakrishnan, S. Seshan, E. Amir, and R. Katz, "Improving TCP/IP Performance over Wireless Networks," Proceedings ACM Mobicom'1995.
  3. Z. Haas and P. Agrawal, "Mobile-TCP: an asymmetric transport protocol design for mobile systems," Proceedings IEEE ICC 1997, pp. 1054-1058.
  4. H. Balakrishnan and R. Katz, "Explicit Loss Notification and Wireless Web Performance," Proc. IEEE Globecom 1998.
  5. H. Balakrishnan, R. Katz, and V. Padmanbhan, "The effects of asymmetry on TCP performance," ACM MONET Journal, 1998, pp. 219-241.

    IETF Documents

  6. G. Montenegro, S. Dawkins, M. Kojo, V. Magret, and N. Vaidya, "Long Thin Networks," IETF RFC 2757.
  7. IETF Performance Implications of Link Characteristics (PILC) Working Group documents
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