Open Access Research

Implementation and evaluation of a new TCP loss recovery architecture

Moonsoo Kang1, Hosung Park2 and Jeonghoon Mo2*

Author Affiliations

1 School of Computer Engineering, Chosun University, 375 Seosuk-dong, Dong-gu, Gwangju 501-759, Republic of Korea

2 Department of Information and Industrial Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

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EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012, 2012:149 doi:10.1186/1687-1499-2012-149

Published: 19 April 2012

Abstract

In this article, we propose a novel loss recovery algorithm of transmission control protocol (TCP) using packet transmission order, which shows a steady loss recovery ability even though packet loss rate increases. This leads to a significant throughput increase of TCP with heavy packet loss. We have verified the performance increase of the new TCP under various environments such as a wireless network, and multimedia transmission through simulation. Moreover, we implemented the proposed idea in Linux and conducted some experiments in a real environment. Even though the experiment results did not perfectly agree with the simulation results, we obtained a similar throughput increase to that of the simulation.

Keywords:
TCP; enhanced loss recovery; wireless TCP