Adaptation Latency and Throughput of TCP Congestion Control Schemes on Vertical Handoff

Where a wireless LAN and a cellular network coexist, a mobile node has to experience vertical handoffs to move between them. Immediately after the vertical handoffs, TCP must need adaptation latency to adjust its congestion window to the proper size at a newly arrived network to use full of a new end-to-end available bandwidth. Even though SACK TCP has the best performance among other regular TCPs in the previous studies, it still cannot use full of the new available bandwidth quickly due to its inefficient increasing way of congestion window. BIC TCP, that becomes a popular TCP in long fat networks, has great feature working well against vertical handoffs by increasing congestion window exponentially with TCP connection sustained. In this paper, we derive adaptation latency of SACK TCP and BIC TCP numerically, and verify them by simulations. We also find that the shorter adaptation latency of BIC TCP produces higher throughput than SACK TCP on vertical handoffs. Consequently, to get higher performance on vertical handoff situations, we propose to use BIC TCP.

이기종망간의 핸드오프에 대한 TCP 적응성능 분석연구

이기종망간의 핸드오프 시, TCP는 새로운 망 환경에서 최적의 전송 CWND 값을 갖기까지 비효율적인 전송을 하게 된다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 전송상태에서의 SACK TCP와 BIC TCP의 성능과 이에 영향을 미치는 요소들을 분석하였다. 수치적 분석과 시뮬레이션 분석을 통하여, BIC TCP가 SACK TCP보다 훨씬 좋은 성능을 보여주었으며, RTT와 전송대역의 변화에 대해서도 좋은 성능을 보여 주었음을 알 수 있었다.