• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.10 no.10
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• pp.19-25
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• 2010

While Snoop improves network performance by using local retransmission in case of packet loss in wireless network, it has security vulnerability to be unable to countermeasure against falsified ACKs attacks. Therefore in this paper, we suggest a modified Snoop with an extra buffer in addition to original Snoop buffer. Even though packets are exhausted in original buffer by falsified ACKs attacks, proposed Snoop can locally retransmit the packets saved in the extra buffer. The simulation by NS-2 shows that proposed Snoop countermeasure efficiently against falsified ACKs attack and builds securer Snoop protocol.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.30 no.6B
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• pp.396-405
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• 2005

Snoop protocol is one of the efficient schemes to compensate TCP packet loss and enhance TCP throughput in wired-cum-wireless networks. However, Snoop protocol has a problem; it cannot perform local retransmission efficiently under the bursty-error prone wireless link. In this paper, we propose Enhanced Snoop(E-Snoop) protocol to solve this problem of Snoop protocol. With E-Snoop protocol, packet losses can be noticed by receiving new ACK packets as well as by receiving duplicate ACK packets or local retransmission timeout. Therefore, TCP throughput can be enhanced by fast recognition of bursty packet losses and fast local retransmissions. From the simulation results, E-Snoop protocol can improve TCP throughput more efficiently than Snoop protocol and can yield more TCP improvement especially in the channel with high packet loss rates.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.30 no.4B
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• pp.218-225
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• 2005

Although Snoop protocol can enhance TCP throughput efficiently in a wired-cum-wireless environment, it has a problem in performing local packet retransmissions under a burst error-prone wireless link. AT-Snoop protocol is proposed to cope with this Snoop protocol's problem by adopting adaptive timer. In this paper, TCP throughputs of AT-Snoop protocol have been analyzed with varying wireless link conditions and the ways of setting parameters of AT-Snoop protocol for higher TCP throughput are found out through computer simulations. From the simulation results, AT-Snoop protocol's two parameters, local retransmission threshold value and local retransmission timeout value, are closely related with the fading changing rate. To get higher TCP throughput, local retransmission threshold value and local retransmission timeout value should be set to a little bit larger values than average WSRTT(Wireless Smoothed Round Trip Time) and mean bad period of the wireless link, respectively.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.2 no.4
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• pp.214-218
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• 2004

In this paper, we have analyzed TCP performance over wireless correlated fading links with and without Snoop protocol. For a given value of the packet error rate, TCP performance without Snoop protocol is degraded as the fading is getting fast (i.e. the user moves fast). When Snoop protocol is introduced in the base station, TCP performance is enhanced in most wireless environments. Especially the performance enhancement derived from using Snoop protocol is large in fast fading channel. This is because packet errors become random and sporadic in fast fading channel and these random packet errors (mostly single packet errors) can be compensated efficiently by Snoop protocol's local packet retransmissions. But Snoop protocol can't give a large performance improvement in slow fading environments where long bursts of packet errors occur. Concerning to packet error rate, Snoop protocol results in the highest performance enhancement in the channel with mid-high values of packet error rate. This means Snoop protocol cannot fully fulfill its ability under too low or too high packet error rate environments.

• 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.

• 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.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.34 no.6
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• pp.435-445
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• 2007

Snoop protocol is one of the efficient schemes to compensate TCP packet loss and enhance TCP throughput in wired-cum-wireless networks. However, Snoop protocol has a problem: it cannot perform local retransmission efficiently under the bursty-error prone wireless link. To solve this problem, SACK-Aware-Snoop and SNACK mechanism have been proposed. These approaches improve the performance by using SACK option field between base station and mobile host. However in the wireless channel with high packet loss rate, SACK-Aware-Snoop and SNACK mechanism do not work well because of two reason: (a) end-to-end performance is degraded because duplicate ACKs themself can be lost in the presence of bursty error, (b) energy of mobile device and bandwidth utilization in the wireless link are wasted unnecessarily because of SACK option field in the wireless link. In this paper, we propose a new local retransmission scheme based on Cross-layer approach, called Cross-layer Snoop(C-Snoop) protocol, to solve the limitation of previous localized link layer schemes. C-Snoop protocol includes caching lost TCP data and performing local retransmission based on a few policies dealing with MAC-layer's timeout and local retransmission timeout. From the simulation result, we could see more improved TCP throughput and energy efficiency than previous mechanisms.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.141-156
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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. The Snoop Protocol was designed for the wired network by putting the Snoop agent module on the BS(Base Station) that connect the wire network to the wireless network to complement the TCP problem. The Snoop agent cash the packets being transferred to the wireless terminal and recover the loss by resending locally for the error occurred in the wireless link. The Snoop agent blocks the unnecessary congestion control by preventing the dupack (duplicate acknowledgement)for the retransmitted packet from sending to the sender and hiding the loss in the wireless link from the sender. We evaluated the performance in the wired/wireless network and in various TCP versions using the TCP designed for the wired network and the Snoop designed for the wireless network and evaluated the performance of the wired/wireless hybrid network in the wireless link environment that the continuous packet loss occur.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.31 no.5B
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• pp.413-420
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• 2006

HMIPv6 is designed to reduce the signaling load to external network and improve handover speed of MN by including Mobility Anchor Point(MAP) in local handover. However in this case of macro handover, it's just used pervious MIPv6 handover algorithm. So, it occurs packet loss and transmission delay problem. In this paper, we propose the mechanism applying the HMIPv6 for Fast Handover to choose suitable to the condition buffering handover. The condition for the selection is result distance measurement between MN and CN, between MN and NAR. Furthermore, using F-SNOOP protocol, it is possible to improve wireless network performance. Wireless network has high Bit Error Rate(BER) characteristic because of path loss, fading, noise and interference. TCP regards such errors as congestion and starts congestion control. This congestion control makes packet transmission rate low. However, F-SNOOP improves TCP performance based on SNOOP and Freeze TCP that use Zero Window Advertisement(ZWA) message when handoff occurs in wireless network.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.83-87
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• 2011

TCP works well in wired networks where packet losses mainly occur due to congestion in data traffic. In wireless networks TCP does not differentiate packet losses from transmission errors or from congestion, which could lead to degrade the network performance. Several methods have been proposed to improve TCP performance over wireless links. Among them the Snoop module working at the base station is the popular method. In this paper, it is shown that the performance of Snoop largely depends upon the transmission link errors and the amount of data traffic. Also, our research shows that the local retransmission timeout value of Snoop can affect throughput. From the simulation results we suggest how to effectively use the Snoop algorithm considering data traffic and transmission link errors. It is expected that the proposed adaptive method will contribute to improving the network performance reducing the burden of the processes for data traffic.