• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.32 no.1
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• pp.12-19
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• 2005

Reliable transport protocols such as TCP are tuned to Perform well in traditional networks where packet losses occur mainly because of congestion. In a wireless network, however, packet losses will occur more often due to reasons such as the high bit error rate and the handoff rather than due to congestion. When using TCP over wireless network, TCP responds to losses due to the high bit error rate and the handoff by invoking congestion control and avoidance algorithms, resulting in the degraded end-to-end performance in the wireless network. There have been several schemes for improving TCP performance over wireless links. Among them, SNOOP Is a very promising scheme because of the localized retransmission. In this thesis, an efficient scheme is proposed by modifying SNOOP scheme. The invocation of congestion control mechanism is now minimized by knowing the cause of packet loss.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.32 no.8A
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• pp.858-870
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• 2007

TCP is popular protocol for reliable data delivery in the Internet. In recent years, wireless environments with transmission errors are becoming more common. Therefore, there is significant interest in using TCP over wireless links. Previous works have shown that, unless the protocol is modified, TCP may perform poorly on paths that include a wireless link subject to transmission errors. The reason for this is the implicit assumption in TCP that all packet losses are due to congestion which causes unnecessary reduction of transmission rate when the cause of packet losses are wireless transmission errors. In this paper, we propose a new LDA that monitors the network congestion level using ROTT. And we evaluate the performance of our scheme and compare with TCP Veno, Spike scheme with NS2(Network Simulator 2). In the result of our experiment, our scheme reduces the packet loss misclassification to maximum 55% of other schemes. And the results of another simulation show that our scheme raise its transmission rate with the fairness preserved.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.154-163
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• 2008

In a mobile broadband wireless access (MBWA) network, many users access a base station (BS), which relays data transferred from high-speed wired network to low-speed wireless network. For this difference of their data rate, a BS suffers from the lack of its buffer space when many users run multiple applications at the same time, and thus packet losses occur. TCP, which guarantees end-to-end reliability, is used as transport protocol also in wireless networks. But TCP lowers their transmission rate incorrectly and frequently whenever packet losses occur. And they increase their transmission rate differently with each other; finally TCP throughput of each TCP flow varies largely, and then TCP fairness goes worse. In this paper, a scheme that controls packet transmission rate adaptively according to TCP flows' transmission rate, that prevents buffer overflows at BS, and that guarantees TCP fairness at a certain degree is proposed. As it is analyzed by simulations, the proposed scheme enhances TCP fairness by maintaining TCP throughput of each TCP sender similarly with each other.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.30 no.3B
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• pp.130-137
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• 2005

Wireless communication environment is changing rapidly as we use new wireless communication technology such as WiBro to access high speed Internet. As a result, reliable data transmission using TCP is also expected to increase. Since TCP assumes that it is used in wired network, TCP suffers significant performance degradation over wireless network where packet losses are related to non-congestion loss. Especially RTO imposes a great performance degradation of TCP. In this paper, we analyze the loss recovery probabilities based on previous researches, and use simulation results of our algorithm to show that it prevents performance degradation by quickly detecting and recovery losses without RTO during fast recovery.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.241-247
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• 2011

Most of network congestions are caused by TCP packet losses in the wired network ecosystems. On the contrary, high BER (Bit Error Rate), which is characteristic of the wireless networks, is a main factor in wireless network environments. Many wireless networks carry out the congestion control mechanisms frequently because they estimate that packet losses are not due to the wireless signal qualities but the congestion controls in their networks. To solve this problem, we propose the improved EWLN (Explicit Wireless Loss Notification) algorithm that more efficiently utilize the congestion window size to increase the wireless network throughput than legacy EWLN algorithm.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.31 no.1
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• pp.20-26
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• 2004

A congestion control algorithm to prevent buffer overflow in MSR(Mobility Support Router) for I-TCP is proposed. Due to high bit error rate and frequent hand-offs over wireless environment, the current congestion control scheme in TCP Reno over mixed(wired and wireless) network exhibits lower throughput than the throughput achieved over wired only network. I-TCP has been proposed to address this by splitting a TCP connection into two TCP connections over wired section and wireless section, respectively. However, buffer overflow in MSR may occur whenever there are excessive bit errors or frequent hand-offs. This may lead to the loss of packets acked by MSR(resident in buffer) to the sender, but not received by the receiver, breaking TCP end-to-end semantics. In this Paper, a new scheme is proposed to prevent the MSR buffer from overflow by introducing “flow control” between the sender and the MSR. Advertised window for the TCP connection between the sender and the MSR is tied to the remaining MSR buffer space, controlling the flow of packets to the MSR buffer before overflow occurs.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2019.05a
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• pp.451-453
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• 2019

Recently, as the use of wireless communication devices has increased, the wireless network usage has increased, and a wired network and a wireless network have been mixed to form a network. Existing TCP algorithms are designed for wired networks. Therefore, in the modern network environment, packet loss can not be accurately distinguished and improper congestion control is performed, resulting in degradation of TCP performance. In this paper, we propose SLDA (Support Vector Machine based Loss Discrimination Algorithm) which can accurately classify the packet loss environment to improve TCP performance and evaluate its performance.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.1179-1182
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• 2006

Ad Hoc 무선망은 기존 인프라에 영향을 받지 않으면서, 노드들이 네트워크를 구성하기 때문에 TCP의 혼잡(Congestion) 제어가 나쁜 영향을 미친다. 기존의 TCP에 무선망의 요소와 거리에 따른 노드 홉수의 영향을 반영해서 새로운 환경에 적합한 TCP를 개선해야한다. 본 논문에서는 혼잡의 원인을 구별하여, 패킷 손실을 최소화할 수 있는 알고리즘을 제안한다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.133-142
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• 2011

When TCP operates in multi-hop wireless networks, it suffers from severe performance degradation due to the different characteristics of wireless networks and wired networks. This is because TCP reacts to wireless packet losses by unnecessarily decreasing its sending rate assuming the losses as congestion losses. Although several loss differentiation algorithms (LDAs) have been proposed to avoid such performance degradation, their detection accuracies are not high as much as we expect. In addition the schemes have a tendency to sacrifice the detection accuracy of congestion losses while they improve the detection accuracy of wireless losses. In this paper, we suggest a new sender-based loss differentiation scheme which enhances the detection accuracy of wireless losses while minimizing the sacrifice of the detection accuracy of congestion losses. Our scheme estimates the rate of queue usage which is highly correlated with the congestion in the network path between a TCP sender and a receiver, and it distinguishes congestion losses from wireless losses by comparing the estimated queue usage with a certain threshold. In the extensive experiments based on a network simulator, QualNet, we measure and compare each detection accuracy of wireless losses and congestion losses, and evaluate the performance enhancement in each scheme. The results show that our scheme has the highest accuracy among the LDAs and it improves the most highly TCP performance in multi-hop wireless networks.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.24-30
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• 2006

With the original Transmission Control Protocol(TCP) design, which is particularly targeted at the wired networks, a packet loss is assumed to be caused by the network congestion. In the wireless environment where the chances to lose packets due to transmission bit errors are not negligible, though, this assumption may result in unnecessary TCP performance degradation. In these days, many papers describe about wireless-TCP which has suggested how to avoid congestion control when packet loss over the wireless network. In this paper, an enhancement scheme is proposed by modifying SNOOP scheme. To enhance the original SNOOP scheme, CPC(Consecutive Packet Control) and ZWSC(Zero Window Size Control) are added. The invocation of congestion control mechanism is now minimized by knowing the cause of packet loss. We use simulation to compare the overhead and the performance of the proposed schemes, and to show that the proposed schemes improve the TCP performance compares to SNOOP by knowing the cause of packet loss at the base station.