• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.32 no.10B
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• pp.638-643
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• 2007

Interconnecting wireless local area networks (WLANs) with third generation (3G) cellular networks has become an issue of great interest. However, a Vertical Handover (VHO) causes an abrupt change in link bandwidth. Due to such a change, TCP triggers unnecessary fast retransmission during a Downward VHO (DVHO) from a cellular network to a WLAN, causing throughput degradation. Thus, we propose a new reordering mechanism for DVHO that suppresses unnecessary retransmission due to the spurious duplicate acknowledgments. We analytically investigate the throughput of TCP in the literature and our proposed scheme. Through the numerical and simulation results, it is shown that our proposed TCP achieves better performance in terms of throughput, compared with Nodupack with SACK.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2009.01a
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• pp.293-296
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• 2009

최근에 다양한 네트워크의 기술들이 존재하고 개발되어지고 있다. 이러한 네트워크 기술들을 효과적으로 사용하기위해서 버티컬 핸드오버가 다양한 측면에서 연구되어지고 있다. 버티컬 핸드오버는 단말기가 이종망에서 더 나은 성능을 가진 네트워크로 끊김없는 서비스를 제공하는 핸드오버 기술이다. 버티컬 핸드오버를 수행하는 동안에 라우터간 시그널링의 지연과 더불어 인증과 등록절차에 대한 시간지연으로 인하여 혼잡한 상황이 아님에도 불구하고 TCP에서는 혼잡한 상황으로 인식하여 성능이 낮아지는 문제가 발생한다. 또한, 버티컬 핸드오버를 수행하는 중에 링크의 특성이 다르고 대역폭이 달라서 패킷의 순서번호가 일치하지 않아서 잘못된 빠른 재전송(false fast retransmission:FFR) 발생하고 이러한 현상들은 TCP 처리량의 저하를 가져온다. 논문에서는 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위한 방법들에 대한 동향을 조사 해보았다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.385-393
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• 2005

In this paper, we propose a simple algorithm to adaptively adjust the value of dupthresh, the duplicate acknowledgement threshold that triggers the transmission control protocol (TCP) fast retransmission algorithm, to improve the TCP performance in a network environment with persistent packet reordering. Our algorithm uses an exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) and the mean deviation of the lengths of the reordering events reported by a TCP receiver with the duplicate selective acknowledgement (DSACK) extension to estimate the value of dupthresh. We also apply an adaptive upper bound on dupthresh to avoid the retransmission timeout events. In addition, our algorithm includes a mechanism to exponentially reduce dupthresh when the retransmission timer expires. With these mechanisms, our algorithm is capable of converging to and staying at a near-optimal interval of dupthresh. The simulation results show that our algorithm improves the protocol performance significantly with minimal overheads, achieving a greater throughput and fewer false fast retransmissions.