• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.9C no.2
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• pp.197-212
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• 2002

Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) [1] has been tuned as a reliable transfer protocol for traditional networks comprising wired links and stationary hosts with same link characteristics. TCP assumes that congestion in the network be a primary cause for packet losses and unusual delays. TCP performs welt over such networks adapting to end-to-end delays and congestion losses, by standard congestion control mechanisms, such as slow-start, congestion avoidance, fast retransmit and recovery. However, networks with wireless and other lossy links suffer from significant losses due to bit errors and handoffs. An asymmetry network such as ADSL has different bandwidth for both directions. As a result, TCP's standard mechanisms incur end-to-end performance degradation in various links. In this paper, we analyze the TCP problems in wireless, satellite, and asymmetry links, and measure the new TCP mechanisms that are recommended by IETF Performance Implications of Link Characteristics (PILC) WG[2], by using Network Simulator 2 (NS-2).

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.98-107
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• 2008

In mobile ad hoc networks, packet loss is unavoidable due to MAC contention, link failure or the inherent characteristics of wireless link. Since TCP relies on the timely reception of TCP ACK packets to progress the transmission of the TCP DATA packets, ACK loss obviously affects the performance due to two main problems: (a) Frequent occurrence of spurious retransmissions caused by timeout events and (b) impairment of the fast retransmit mechanism caused by the lack of a sufficient number of duplicate ACK packets. In particular, since most reactive routing protocols force the packets buffered over a path to be discarded while performing a route recovery, the performance degradation becomes more serious due to such ACK loss. In this paper, therefore, TCP with two piggybacking schemes (called TCP-pgy) is proposed in order to resolve the above-mentioned problems over reactive routing protocols. Through extensive simulations using the ns-2 simulator, we prove that our proposed schemes contribute to TCP performance improvements.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.43 no.3 s.345
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• pp.118-125
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• 2006

Mobile nodes in FHMIPv6 has both advantages of HMIPv6 protocol which reduces signaling delay time and resource consumption during a handover and fast handover algorithm which reduces packet loss. Fast handover algorithm can reduce packet loss by 'tunneling' method ; that transmits a packet from old access router to new access router in case of handover. However, the fast handover algorithm can cause a reordering problem in a receiver between packets tunneled from the previous access router and packets transmitted directly to the new access router, which could degrade the TCP performance due to congestion control. In this paper, we propose two algorithms to solve the reordering problem in fast handover. The first one uses a holding timer for tunneling, the other adds a new algorithm to routers that adopt snoop protocol. We compare the performance of the proposed reseuquencing algorithms with that of the existing FHMIPv6 protocol by simulation. The simulation results show that the proposed algorithms solve the reordering problems and enhance TCP performance by preventing TCP sender entering congestion control.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.235-244
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• 2004

There have been a lot of approaches to evaluate and predict transmission control protocol (TCP) performance in a numerical way. Especially, under the recent advance in wireless transmission technology, the issue of TCP performance over wireless links has come to surface. It is because TCP responds to all packet losses by invoking congestion control and avoidance algorithms, resulting in degraded end-to-end performance in wireless and lossy systems. By several previous works, although it has been already proved that overall TCP performance is largely dependent on its loss recovery performance, there have been few works to try to analyze TCP loss recovery performance with thoroughness. In this paper, therefore, we focus on analyzing TCP's loss recovery performance and have developed a simple model that facilitates to capture the TCP sender's behaviors during loss recovery period. Based on the developed model, we can derive the conditions that packet losses may be recovered without retransmission timeout (RTO). Especially, we have found that TCP Reno can retransmit three packet losses by fast retransmits in a specific situation. In addition, we have proved that successive three packet losses and more than four packet losses in a window always invoke RTO easily, which is not considered or approximated in the previous works. Through probabilistic works with the conditions derived, the loss recovery performance of TCP Reno can be quantified in terms of the number of packet losses in a window.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.28 no.5B
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• pp.427-434
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• 2003

This paper suggests an improved TCP congestion algorithm, which is more robust to lossy wireless environment than other algorithms such as TCP-Reno. The suggested algorithm decides on the size of a congestion window depending on both PER (Packet Error Rate) and its state, which is one of fast recovery state and slow start state. Some simulations are given to validate the suggested algorithm and the algorithm is compared with other TCP congestion algorithm from the point of view of performance measures such as a congestion window and throughput. The suggested algorithm has better throughput than other algorithm over wireless links with high PER and similar throughput to others over wireless links with low BER.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.1271-1274
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• 2005

Fast long-distance network 에서 기존 TCP 의 혼잡 제어 (congestion control) 알고리즘은 대역폭을 효과적 사용하지 못하는 문제점을 가지고 있다. 대역폭을 효과적으로 사용하기 위해서 TCP 혼잡 제어를 수정한 다양한 프로토콜들이 제안되었다. 이러한 프로토콜들은 디자인 시 주로 bandwidth scalability, TCP friendliness, 그리고 RTT fairness 와 같은 세 가지의 특성을 고려하고 있다. 하지만 제안된 프로토콜들은 어떤 것도 trade-off 관계로 있는 이 세 가지 특성을 동시에 만족시키지 못한다. 본 논문에서는 혼잡 제어 알고리즘의 증가 규칙 (increase rule)에 RTT 를 직접 반영함으로써 위 세가지 요구사항을 동시에 만족시키는 EIMD (Exponential Increase/ Multiplicative Decrease)라고 하는 새로운 TCP 혼잡 제어 알고리즘을 제안한다. EIMD 는 패킷 손실이 없는 한, 지수적으로 윈도우를 증가시켜 효과적으로 대역폭을 사용하면서도, 패킷손실 직전의 윈도우 크기, $W_{max}$ 에 반비례하게 윈도우를 증가시킴으로써 fair share 에 빠르게 수렴할 수 있다는 특성을 갖는다. 모의실험을 통해 제안된 프로토콜이 fast long-distance network 에서 위 4 가지 특성들을 모두 만족하는지 검증한다

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.41 no.4
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• pp.35-44
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• 2004

Recently announced TCP Vegas predicts the degree of congestion in the network and then control the congestion window size. Thus it shows better performance than TCP Reno. however, TCP vegas does not assume any network model, its congestion window control is very limited. Because or this limitation, TCP vegas still can not adapt to fast changing available bandwidth. In this paper, we introduce a new TCP algorithm which adapts to fast changing available bandwidth well. To devise such a TCP, we model the end to end network of TCP connection as a queueing system and finds congestion window size which can utilize the available bandwidth sufficiently but not make the network congested. The simulation results show that our algorithm adapts to the avaliable bandwidth faster than TCP vegas and as a results, when the available bandwidth is changing rapidly, our algorithm not only operates more stably than TCP Vegas, but also it shows higher thruput than TCP Vegas.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.741-746
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• 2012

Transmission control protocol(TCP) widely used as a transport protocol in the Internet includes a loss recovery function that detects and recovers packet losses by retransmissions. The loss recovery function consists of the two algorithms; fast retransmit and fast recovery. There have been researches to avoid nonnecessary retransmission timeouts (RTOs), which leads to selective acknowledgement (SACK) option and limited transmit scheme that are standardized by IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force). Recently, a method that covers the case in which a retransmitted packet is lost again has been propsed. The method, however, is not proved in terms of the additive increase multiplicative decrease (AIMD) principle of TCP congestion control. In this paper, therefore, we analyzed the method in terms of the principle by ns-simulations.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.04a
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• pp.57-59
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• 2006

In this paper, we investigate the wireless TCP protocol for throughput improvement in wireless Broadband. If the burst error duration of a wireless link is significantly long, retransmissions of lost packets by Snoop TCP are fulfilled mainly not by the receipt of duplicate acknowledgement (DUPACKs) but by local timer expiration. With the proposed scheme, Snoop TCP recovers packet losses fast by shortening the interval of local retransmissions based on the channel status. From the simulation results, we can show that the proposed scheme can improve TCP throughput considerably.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Communication Sciences Conference
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• 2004.07a
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• pp.248-248
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• 2004