A survey of TCP over ad hoc networks

A. Al Hanbali; E. Altman; P. Nain

doi:10.1109/COMST.2005.1610548

A survey of TCP over ad hoc networks

A. Al Hanbali, E. Altman, P. Nain

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The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) was designed to provide reliable end-to-end delivery of data over unreliable networks. In practice, most TCP deployments have been carefully designed in the context of wired networks. Ignoring the properties of wireless ad hoc networks can lead to TCP implementations with poor performance. In order to adapt TCP to the ad hoc environment, improvements have been proposed in the literature to help TCP to differentiate between the different types of losses. Indeed, in mobile or static ad hoc networks losses are not always due to network congestion, as it is mostly the case in wired networks. In this report, we present an overview of this issue and a detailed discussion of the major factors involved. In particular, we show how TCP can be affected by mobility and lower-layer protocols. In addition, we survey the main proposals that are intended to adapting TCP to mobile and static ad hoc environments

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	22-36
Journal	IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials
Volume	7
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/COMST.2005.1610548
Publication status	Published - 2005

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