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by Chadi Barakat, Alaeddine Al Fawal
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Abstract:
Since the TCP protocol uses the loss of packets as an indication of network congestion, its performance degrades over wireless links, which are characterized by a high bit error rate. Different solutions have been proposed to improve the performance of TCP over wireless links, the most promising one being the use of a hybrid model at the link level combining FEC (Forward Error Correction), ARQ-SR (Automatic Repeat Request with Selective Repeat), and an in-order delivery of packets to IP. The drawback of FEC is that it consumes some extra bandwidth to transmit the redundant information. ARQ-SR consumes extra bandwidth only when packets are lost, its drawback is that it increases the round-trip time (RTT), which may deteriorate the performance of TCP. Another drawback of ARQ-SR is that a complete packet can be retransmitted to correct a small piece of errored data. We study in this paper the performance of TCP over a wireless link implementing hybrid FEC/ARQ-SQ. The study is done by simulating and modeling long-lived TCP transfers over wireless links showing Bernoulli errors. We are motivated by how to tune link-level error recovery, e.g. amount of FEC, persistency of ARQ, so as to maximize the performance of TCP. We provide results for different physical characteristics of the wireless link (delay, error rate) and for different traffic loads (number of TCP connections). 1
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