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....that the data packets are retransmitted after timeout because it takes a discrete amount of time to get the segment acknowledgements back from the receiver. The slow start threshold, ssthreshold, is also set to one half of the frozen window size value, and the cwnd is set to one TCP segment value [18]. This, therefore, results in a decrease in throughput performance. In addition, TCP F does not consider the possible loss of RFN and RRN messages, which can influence TCP performance. Section IV will discuss this in detail. III. AD HOC ROUTING PROTOCOL Existing routing protocols for mobile ad ....

....(Refer to Section IV D) C.3 TCP BuS Functions at Destination Node A receiver performs the normal TCP end to end procedure on the acquired path in case that there is no route disconnection. Also, a selective retransmission mechanism as in TCP SACK can be applied for efficient flow control [18]. We proposed an additional selective retransmission scheme to cope with lost packets due to congestion on the partial path from the source to the receiver. A request for selective retransmission of lost packets is generated at the receiver on detecting the absence of consecutive segment sequence. ....

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.... designed for wireline networks where the channel error rates are very low and congestion is the primary cause of packet loss [2] Since its original deployment, several modifications to TCP, including Reno, NewReno, and Vegas have been proposed and their performance analyzed in wireline networks [2, 3, 5]. Reno s loss recovery algorithm is optimized for the case when a single packet is dropped from a window of data. Hence, Reno can suffer performance problems when multiple packets are dropped from a window [3] NewReno addresses this problem by improving the loss recovery phase to handle the ....

....and Vegas have been proposed and their performance analyzed in wireline networks [2, 3, 5] Reno s loss recovery algorithm is optimized for the case when a single packet is dropped from a window of data. Hence, Reno can suffer performance problems when multiple packets are dropped from a window [3]. NewReno addresses this problem by improving the loss recovery phase to handle the occurrence of multiple errors within the same congestion window [3, 6] However, the performance of these enhanced TCP versions on wireless fading links has not been adequately studied so far. There have been some ....

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....when used on channels which are typically characterized by high error rates (e.g. wireless channels) 2] Tahoe and Reno versions of TCP are commonly used implementations. 1] Several other enhancements to TCP, including New Reno, SACK, and Vegas, have been proposed to improve TCP performance [3], 4] Such enhanced versions have been shown to provide better performance than Tahoe in wireline networks [4] However, in [5] it has been shown that TCP enhancements like NewReno and Vegas do not offer significant improvementcompared to Tahoe on slowly fading, low bandwidth delay product ....

....Since the bulk throughput performance of the stack during data transfer phase mainly depends on the dynamics of window adaptation and error recovery procedures at the TCP and link layers, we focus mainly on TCP and LL. The versions of TCP that are considered are TCP Tahoe and TCP NewReno [3], 5] TCP Tahoe is a commonly used implementation. It uses a fast retransmit mechanism to recover lost packets. TCP NewReno version, on the other hand, is a proposal to improve the performance of TCP when multiple packet losses are encountered by making use of a fast recovery mechanism. Detailed ....

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K. Fall and S. Floyd, "Comparisons of Tahoe, Reno, and Sack TCP," manuscript, ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov, March 1996.

....can be losses due to link errors and channel handovers, TCP can exhibit very poor performance. Several modifications have been proposed to the TCP loss recovery and congestion control mechanism to improve data throughput in the event of random loss; a simulation study of these has been reported in [6]. To study the performance of TCP over wireless channels, several researchers have recently used experimental test beds to understand TCP behaviour, and to propose and evaluate possible solutions; see, for example, 1] 2] 4] 8] Our work, reported here, belongs to a line of research that ....

....answer what if questions, or evaluate the effect of modifying a particular protocol, or network parameter. In this paper, we develop models and analyses for studying the bulk throughput of four versions of TCP; namely, OldTahoe (the original protocol from [7] Tahoe, Reno, and NewReno [15] [6]. We assume a local network scenario, in which a host on a local area network (LAN) is transmitting bulk data to a mobile host connected to the LAN by a wireless link. Our models incorporate important aspects, such as, slow start and congestion avoidance, coarse timers, fastretransmit, and fast ....

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K. Fall, and S. Floyd, "Comparisons of Tahoe, Reno, and Sack TCP," manuscript, ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov, March 1996.

....at the LAN host, then it can assume that the loss is a random loss, and not due to congestion. When the number of duplicate acks received reaches the threshold K, then the packet next expected by the receiver is retransmitted. A complicated recovery phase then follows. In particular, in TCP Tahoe [6] if the transmitter receives the Kth duplicate ack at time t, before the timer expires, then the transmitter behaves as if a timeout has occurred and begins retransmission, with W (t ) and W th (t ) as given by the basic algorithm. 10 4 TCP Throughput Analysis with the Markov Loss ....

K. Fall, and S. Floyd, "Comparisons of Tahoe, Reno, and Sack TCP," manuscript, ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov, March 1996.

....NewReno, and Vegas have been proposed and their performance analyzed in wireline networks [2; 3; 4] Reno s loss recovery algorithm is optimized for the case when a single packet is lost in a window of data. Hence, Reno can suffer performance problems when multiple packets are lost in a window [3]. NewReno addresses this problem by improving the loss recovery phase to handle this situation [3; 5] However, the performance of these enhanced TCP versions on wireless fading links has not been adequately studied so far. There have been several recent investigations on different facets of ....

....to trigger multiple fast retransmits, then a timeout has to be waited for. The above data loss recovery strategy in Reno is shown to perform better than Tahoe when single packet losses occur in the loss window, but can suffer performance problems when multiple packets are lost in the loss window [3]. In the case of NewReno, fast retransmit and congestion window adaptation are as in Reno, but the loss recovery mechanism is as in Tahoe [5] That is, NewReno will not send the first lost packet al..one and wait for its ACK like Reno. Instead it will continue with the transmission of subsequent ....

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K. Fall, and S. Floyd, "Comparisons of Tahoe, Reno, and Sack TCP," manuscript, ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov, March 1996.

....FRIO. Section 6 presents our experimental evaluation, and section 6.2 summarizes the paper. 2 Related Work For the last decade, researchers have studied and proposed improvements to TCP IP performance. These improvements include changes to TCP host implementations (eg: NewReno, SACK, FACK etc [1, 7, 8, 9, 18, 25]) better queue management algorithms (Eg: AQM, RED, SRED, FRED, FPQ etc [3, 10, 15, 20, 21, 14] or schemes which require both end system and bottleneck support (eg: ECN, adaptive packet marking [5, 22, 24] Packeteer s rate control [13] is a buffer management scheme which manipulates TCP ....

K. Fall and S. Floyd, "Comparison of Tahoe, Reno and Sack TCP," Computer Communication Review, July 1996. ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/papers/sacks v2.ps.Z

....paper. 2 Performance problems of TCP over assured service It is well known that TCP Reno (the large installed base of TCP implementations) has performance problems if a connection encounters a burst loss of packets i.e. if a connection sees a number of packet losses with nearby sequence numbers [18]. Specifically, three or more packets dropped in a window can lead to a timeout plus multiple SSTHRESH reductions [8] The distribution of these losses in the window is irrelevant for TCP Reno, i.e. the performance problems can occur with or without RED type gateways as long as multiple losses ....

Kevin Fall and Sally Floyd, "Comparisons of Tahoe, Reno and SACK TCP", Computer Communication Review, V. 26 N. 3, July 1996,

....OldTahoe version in the presence of Markovian packet losses has been presented in [10] where it is shown that correlation has a beneficial effect in general. Several modifications to TCP, including Reno, NewReno, and Vegas have been proposed and their performance analyzed in wireline networks [2] [13] [15] Reno s loss recovery algorithm is optimized for the case when a single packet is dropped from a window of data. Thus, Reno may significantly improve upon the behavior of Tahoe when a single packet is dropped, but can suffer performance problems when multiple packets are dropped from a ....

....loss recovery algorithm is optimized for the case when a single packet is dropped from a window of data. Thus, Reno may significantly improve upon the behavior of Tahoe when a single packet is dropped, but can suffer performance problems when multiple packets are dropped from a window of data [13]. As multiple packet losses are common in wireless channels, Reno is expected to perform poorly in such environments [2] NewReno addresses this problem by improving the loss recovery phase to handle the occurrence of multiple errors within the same congestion window [8] 13] The performance of ....

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K. Fall, and S. Floyd, "Comparisons of Tahoe, Reno, and Sack TCP," manuscript, ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov, March 1996.

.... Versions of TCP in a Local Network with a Lossy Link Anurag Kumar October 22, 1996 1 Introduction In this work (see full report in [3] we develop models and analyses for studying the bulk throughput of four versions of TCP; namely, OldTahoe (the original protocol) Tahoe, Reno, and NewReno [2]. We assume a local network scenario, in which a host on a local area network (LAN) is transmitting bulk data to a mobile host connected to the LAN by a wireless link. Our models incorporate important aspects, such as, slow start and congestion avoidance, coarse timers, fast retransmit, and fast ....

.... and, in case of multiple losses, needs additional duplicate acks for continuing fast recovery, its throughput suffers for large packet loss probabilities; for p :05 it is no better than Tahoe (with fast retransmit) These results of ours corroborate the observations made by Fall and Floyd [2]. 4. Setting the duplicate ack threshold for fast retransmission to 1 can be expected to double the throughput of the basic fast retransmit protocols for the error probability range ( 05; 2) This is related to one of the proposals in TCP Vegas (see [1] 5. Finally, we have observed that for ....

K. Fall, and S. Floyd, "Comparisons of Tahoe, Reno, and Sack TCP," manuscript, ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov, March 1996.

....and the resulting system looks like the one in Figure 3. The presence of the loopback is what lets experiments to be run on standalone systems, without the need for a real network. By using such a simple setting, we can simulate most of the settings used in the literature on TCP congestion control [5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12]. 3 Simulating Arbitrary Networks More complex structures, involving multiple queues and links, can also be simulated, even when the simulator is running on a single node. To this purpose, a model of the system must be defined in terms of queues and links. On each router, and possibly on each ....

K. Fall, S.Floyd: "Comparison of Tahoe, Reno and SACK TCP", Tech. Report, 1995. Available from http://www-nrg.ee.lbl.gov/nrg-papers.html

....latter two situations there often exist relevant losses, and both the acknowledgement and the current congestion control algorithms of TCP do not give an adequate response. There is some consensus on the fact that selective acknowledgements (SACKs) can improve TCP performance over lossy networks [6, 7]. SACKs have been proposed for TCP [1, 10] and other protocols [3, 4, 11, 12] to report to the sender which segments have been delivered and which have not, thus avoiding unnecessary retransmissions. If matched with suitably large windows, and a proper congestion control algorithm and ....

....SACK information, a complete SACK mechanism also has to implement a retransmission strategy and interact with congestion control mechanisms [8, 2] In particular, the latter should not impose too restrictive limitations on the window size in presence of segment losses. The reader is referred to [8, 2, 6, 7, 5] for a discussion of this important topic. Here we only discuss briefly some retransmission strategies that we are currently investigating. We hope that the simple algorithms described in this paper should allow researchers to make significant experience on congestion control algorithms and ....

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K. Fall, S.Floyd, "Comparison of Tahoe, Reno and SACK TCP", Tech. Report, 1995, available via http://www-nrg.ee.lbl.gov/nrg-papers.html

....of selective acknowledgements (SACKs) both in TCP [1] and other protocols [15, 13, 5, 4] to report more exactly which segments have been delivered and which have not, thus avoiding unnecessary retransmissions. Work is currently in progress towards the definition of a SACK extension for TCP (see [12, 6, 7]) One difficulty with SACKs is that they are an extension of the protocol, and as such require support on both ends of a connection to be effective. Because of the lack of a widely accepted specification of this option, implementations of TCP usually do not include SACKs at the time of this ....

K. Fall, S.Floyd, "Comparison of Tahoe, Reno and SACK TCP", Tech. Report, 1995, available via http://www-nrg.ee.lbl.gov/nrg-papers.html

....delays, and possibly lossy links. The dummynet approach gives most of the advantages of both simulation and real world testing: great control over operating parameters, simplicity, ability to use real traffic generators. With our tool one can run experiments such as the one mentioned in [2, 3, 5, 9, 10, 14] on a single workstation, by using unmodified real world applications (e.g. FTP, Telnet, Web browsers) as traffic generators. As a consequence, running an experiment is as easy (and quick) as running the desired set of applications on a workstation. Since dummynet introduces almost no overhead in ....

....The resulting system looks like the one in Figure 3: local communication is also subject to the queueing and delay introduced by the simulated network. Such a simple setting is able to simulate almost all settings used in the literature where a bottleneck link can be identified, e.g. those used in [2, 3, 5, 9, 10, 14] to cite only some. 2.1 Applications dummynet is particularly useful when studying the interactions between protocols and application programs in unusual or hard to reproduce settings. We can identify the following broad classes of applications: ffl debugging. The use of real implementations ....

K. Fall, S.Floyd, "Comparison of Tahoe, Reno and SACK TCP", Tech. Report, 1995, available from http://www-nrg.ee.lbl.gov/nrg-papers.html

....acknowledgment scheme in which received segments that are not at the left edge of the receive window are not acknowledged. This forces the sender to either wait a roundtrip time to find out about each lost packet, or to unnecessarily retransmit segments which have been correctly received [Fall95] With the cumulative acknowledgment scheme, multiple dropped segments generally cause TCP to lose its ACK based clock, reducing overall throughput. Selective Acknowledgment (SACK) is a strategy which corrects this behavior in the face of multiple dropped segments. With selective acknowledgments, ....

.... in favor of selective acknowledgments simple experiments with RDP have shown that disabling the selective acknowledgment facility greatly increases the number of retransmitted segments over a lossy, high delay Internet path [Partridge87] A recent simulation study by Kevin Fall and Sally Floyd [Fall95] demonstrates the strength of TCP with SACK over the non SACK Tahoe and Reno TCP implementations. RFC1072 [VJ88] describes one possible implementation of SACK options for TCP. Unfortunately, it has never been deployed in the Internet, as there was disagreement about how SACK options should be ....

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Kevin Fall, Sally Floyd, "Comparisons of Tahoe, RENO and Sack TCP", Computer Communications Review, V. 26 N. 3, July 1996, pp. 5-21

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