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Performance Evaluation of TCP in Hybrid Satellite-Terrestrial Relay Networks

하이브리드 위성-지상 중계기 네트워크에서 TCP 성능 분석

  • Received : 2016.10.04
  • Accepted : 2017.01.12
  • Published : 2017.01.31
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Abstract

In the land mobile satellite (LMS) communication, a hybrid satellite-terrestrial relay networks (HSTRNs) using a maximal ratio combining (MRC) scheme are widely used to enhance the quality of signal from a satellite. In this paper, we derive equations for the TCP throughput and the spectral efficiency in the HSTRN and analyze results of the performance evaluation for TCP in various environments. In the simulation results, it is shown that increasing the number of terrestrial relays can enhance the TCP throughput and spectral efficiency thanks to the MRC scheme. However, the usage of the static number of terrestrial relays considering no channel states would cause the overhead. Furthermore, it has a limitation to enhance the network performance by only MRC scheme in HSTRN because the TCP performance is sensitive to the packet los rate. Therefore, we discuss the possible solutions that can additionally enhance the network performance and reduce the overhead.

지상 모바일 위성 통신에서 MRC 기법을 사용하는 하이브리드 위성-지상 중계기 네트워크는 위성으로부터 전송된 신호의 품질을 향상하는데 널리 사용되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 하이브리드 위성-지상 중계기 네트워크에서 TCP 처리율과 spectral efficiency 성능을 수식으로 도출해보고 다양한 환경의 TCP 성능 평가 결과에 대해서 분석해보았다. 분석 결과, MRC 덕분에 지상 중계기의 수를 증가하는 것으로 TCP 처리율과 spectral efficiency 성능을 향상할 수 있지만 채널 상태에 상관없이 고정된 지상 중계기 수를 적용하는 것은 오버헤드가 발생할 수 있다. 또한 TCP 성능은 패킷손실률에 민감하기 때문에 하이브리드 위성-지상중계기 네트워크에서 MRC 기법 적용만으로는 성능 향상에 한계가 있다는 것을 알 수 있었다. 그러므로 본 논문에서는 추가적으로 오버헤드를 줄이고 네트워크 성능을 향상할 수 있는 솔루션들에 대해서도 토론해 본다.

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