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Receiver-Initiated Slow Start for Improving TCP Performance in Vertical Handoff

수직적 핸드오프에서의 TCP 성능향상을 위한 수신자기반 슬로우스타트

  • 석우진 (한국과학기술정보연구원, 국가슈퍼컴퓨팅연구소) ;
  • 이민선 (한국과학기술정보연구원) ;
  • 이만희 (한남대학교)
  • Received : 2013.02.06
  • Accepted : 2013.08.09
  • Published : 2013.08.30
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Abstract

The performance of TCP depends on the degree of traffic congestion between the sender and the receiver. The traffic could increase, and this causes congestion which may cause trouble in data transfer. Then, TCP tries to eliminate the trouble by reducing the transfer speed with slowstart scheme. When a mobile node moves over heterogeneous wireless networks, TCP experiences dramatic change of the amount of traffic, and it performs slowstart. In this paper, we propose the efficient scheme of TCP slowstart that should performs after vertical handoff. In this scheme, TCP receiver forces slowstart, which is different form normal schemes. Its performance is better than the normal schemes in that TCP sender experiences traffic congestion and performs slowstart. We perform simulation to measure and to verify the improved performance.

TCP의 성능은 연결된 송신자와 수신자간의 전송 경로상의 트래픽 혼잡정도에 의해 영향을 받는다. 트래픽이 급작스럽게 증가하여 혼잡이 발생하면, 이는 데이터 전송의 장애를 유발시킬 수 있다. 데이터 전송의 장애가 발생하여 전송 패킷의 손실이 발생하면, TCP는 슬로우스타트를 수행하여 전송 속도를 낮추어 전송 경로 상의 트래픽 혼잡을 줄이고자 한다. 이동 단말이 이기종 무선 네트워크 간에 수직적 핸드오프를 하게 될 경우, TCP는 트래픽의 급격한 변화를 경험하게 되고, 이에 대해 슬로우스타트를 수행하게 된다. 본 논문에서는 수직적 핸드오프 시에 수반되는 TCP 슬로우스타트를 좀 더 효율적으로 수행하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안하는 방안은 기존의 방식과는 다르게 TCP 수신자가 슬로우스타트를 강제하는 방법이다. 이는 TCP 송신자에서 트래픽 혼잡을 경험한 후 슬로우스타트를 수행하는 기존의 방법보다 성능이 뛰어나다. 향상된 성능에 대해서는 시뮬레이션 방법으로 측정하여 성능을 검증하였다.

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