• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.179-188
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• 2008

Even though a lot of researches to improve the performance of TCP over wireless networks have been performed, the performance of TCP cannot satisfy users under high packet loss rate of wireless networks. This paper addresses the problem of TCP Westwood under high packet loss rate and reveals the reasons through the extensive simulation analysis. The ABE(Available Bandwidth Estimation) of TCP westwood becomes incorrect due to TCP dynamics of loss recovery. Based on this observation, we propose two algorithms for enhancing the correctness of ABE. We have evaluated the effects of the proposed algorithms through simulation. The proposed algorithms have achieved more correct ABE under the packet loss rate less than 1%.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.7B
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• pp.477-487
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• 2008

Congestion control of the TCP reduces transmission rate when it detects packet loss because packet loss origines from congestion in the wired network. In the wireless network, packet loss comes from channel errors. Wired TCP degrades performance when there are wireless losses because it does not classify type of loss. These day, there are many researches which classify type of loss between congestion loss and wireless loss for wired-wireless hybrid network. For wireless TCP, many of existing algorithms are based on the estimated bandwidth or variations of packet arrival time. In this paper, we propose a new TCP scheme to distinguish the wireless packet losses from the congestion packet losses using MIB of the IEEE 802.11 MAC. We perform excessive simulations using the NS-2 network simulator and analyze the simulation results to compare the performance of the proposed algorithm to other well-known algorithms. From simulation results, we know that proposed algorithm improves performance about 12% and 32% compared with Spike algorithm and mBiaz algorithm, respectively.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.392-401
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• 2007

Wireless network has high BER characteristic because of path loss, fading, noise and interference. Many packet losses occur without any congestion in wireless network. Therefore, many wireless TCP algorithms have been proposed. SNOOP, one of wireless TCP algorithms, hides packet losses for Fixed Host and retransmits lost packets in wireless network. However, SNOOP has a weakness for bust errors in wireless network. This paper proposes the SACK-SNOOP to improve TCP performance based on SNOOP and Freeze-TCP that use ZWA messages in wireless network. This message makes FH stop sending packets to MH. BS could retransmit error packets to MH for this time. SACK-SNOOP use improved Selective ACK, thereby reducing the number of packet sequences according to error environment. This method reduces the processing time for generation, transmission, analysis of ACK. This time gain is enough to retransmit local burst errors in wireless link. Furthermore, SACK-SNOOP can manage the retransmitted error by extending delay time to FH. The simulation shows that our proposed protocol is more effective for packet losses in wireless networks.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.31 no.2
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• pp.188-195
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• 2004

We have analyzed the performance of TCP in the CDMA mobile communications systems with the adaptive modulation and coding(AMC). The wireless channel using AMC is characterized with not high error rate but highly varying bandwidth. Due to time-varying bandwidth, timeout events of TCP occurs more frequently, which leads to the throughput degradation. The analysis model is composed of the two parts. In the first part, we divide TCP packet stream into ‘packet groups’and derive the probability distribution of the wireless transmission time of each Packet group that reflects the time varying characteristics of AMC. In the second part, we formulate embedded Markov chain by making use of the results of the first part to model TCP timer mechanism and wireless transmission. Since our system model is characterized by the forward link high speed data transmission using AMC, the results reported in this paper can be used as a guideline for the design and operation of HSDPA, 1xEV-DO, and 1xEV-DV.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.477-480
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• 2008

In this paper, we design the TCP-Light protocol for directly connecting a sensor network with Internet. When we are monitoring the data and controlling of the sensor node, the sensor network must be connected to Internet. But TCP in wireless networks has a number of performance problems which is high bit-error rates and a hardware constraint. Moreover, the end-to-end acknowledgment and retransmission scheme employed by TCP causes expensive retransmissions along every hop of the path between the sender and the receiver. This paper introduces The TCP-Light protocol which increases TCP performance in wireless sensor networks, decreases the number of end-to-end retransmissions and decreases memory consumption.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.8 no.5
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• pp.125-132
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• 2007

Transmission mechanisms that include an available bandwidth estimation algorithm and a packet loss differentiation scheme, in general, exhibit higher TCP performance in wireless networks. TCP New Jersey, known as the best existing scheme in terms of goodput, improves wireless TCP performance using the available bandwidth estimation at the sender and the congestion warning at intermediate routers. Although TCP New Jersey achieves 17% and 85% improvements in goodput over TCP Westwood and TCP Reno, respectively, we further improve TCP New Jersey by exploring improved available bandwidth estimation, retransmission timeout, and recovery mechanisms. Hence, we propose TCP New Jersey PLUS (shortly TCP NJ+), showing that under 1% packet loss rate, it outperforms 3% by TCP New Jersey and 5% by TCP Wes1wood. In 5% packet loss rate, a characteristic of high bit-error-rate wireless network, it outperforms other TCP variants by 19% to 104% in terms of goodput even when the network is in bi-directional congestion.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.10C no.7
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• pp.943-954
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• 2003

The mobile telecommunication system has been growing exponentially after 1990s due to the high population in a city and the growth of mobile user. In this time, the current mobile system mainly concentrates on the voice communication. However, in the next generation, mobile users want to get very diverse services via mobile terminal such as the Internet access, web access, multimedia communication, and etc. For this reason, the next generation system, such as the UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunication Services) system, has to support the packet data service and it will play the major role in the system. By the way, since the Web service is based on TCP, most of the Internet traffic TCP traffic. Therefore, efficient transmission of TCP traffic will take very important role in the performance of packet data service. There are many researches about improving TCP performance over wireless network. In those schemes, the UMTS system adapts the link layer retransmission scheme. However, there are rarely studies about the exact performance of the link layer retransmission scheme in the face of dynamic changes of wireless environment over the UMTS system. The dynamic changes of wireless environment, such as wireless bandwidth, can degrade TCP performance directly. So, in this paper, we simulate and analyze the TCP performance in the UMTS system with dynamic wireless environments. Then, we propose a simple scheme for minimizing TCP performance degradation. As a result of simulation, we can find that when wireless environment is changed dynamically, the probability of TCP timeout is increased, and the TCP performance is degraded very much. In this situation, the proposed simple scheme shows good performance. It saves wireless resources and reduces the degradation of TCP performance without large overhead of the base station.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.10c
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• pp.604-606
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• 2004

유선망과는 달리 무선망은 폐이딩(fading), 잡음, 간섭 등에 의해 상대적으로 높은 에러율을 보인다. 이러한 무선망에서 TCP를 적용할 경우, 무선망에서의 비트 에러에 의한 패킷 손실도 혼잡으로 간주하여 송신 윈도우를 줄임으로써 비효율적인 특성을 보인다. 이러한 무선 환경에서 기존TCP의 성능을 향상시키기 위해 1-TCP, M-TCP, snoop등 다양한 기법들이 연구되고 있는데, 그 중에서 snoop은 양단간의 의미를 유지하면서도 효율적인 기법으로 널리 알려져 있다 그러나, Snoop은 무선망에서 많은 패킷이 손실되는 경우에는 비효율적인데, 본 논문에서는 snoop을 개선하여 에러율이 높은 무선망 환경에서 효과적인 성능을 발휘하는 fast Snoop 기법을 제안한다 제안된 알고리즘을 시뮬레이션을 통해 기존의 Snoop과 비교하여 성능 개선 효과를 확인 하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2001.10b
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• pp.1395-1398
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 설치가 용이하고, 이동이 자유로우며 능동적으로 연결을 맺을 수 있는 무선 환경 특성에 대해 알아보고, 특히 무선 Ad-hoc환경에서의 TCP 버전별 특성을 분석해 보았다. 또한 지연과 오류 확률이 높은 무선환경에서 여러 가지 버전의 TCP가 동시에 사용되는 경우에 각 TCP 버전의 트래픽 특성을 모의 실험하였다. 이 실험을 위해 가장 많이 사용되어지고 있는 네트워크 시뮬레이터2(NS2)를 이용하였다.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.279-289
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• 2009

As the TCP is the protocol designed for the wired network that packet loss probability is very low, because TCP transmitter takes it for granted that the packet loss by the wireless network characteristics is occurred by the network congestion and lowers the transmitter's transmission rate, the performance is degraded. In this article, we suggest the newly improved algorithm using two parameters, the local retransmission time value and the local retransmission critical value to the BS based on the Snoop. This technique adjusts the base stations local retransmission timer effectively according to the wireless link status to recover the wireless packet loss rapidly. We checked that as a result of the suggested algorithm through various simulations, A-Snoop protocol improve more the wireless TCP transmission rate by recovering the packet loss effectively in the wireless link that the continuous packet loss occur than the Snoop protocol.