Effects of diversity routing on TCP performance in networks with stochastic channels

Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2010.

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Main Author: Qian, Yinuo
Other Authors: Vincent W.S. Chan and John M. Chapin.
Format: Thesis
Language:eng
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2011
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spelling mit-1721.1/623952019-04-12T16:10:24Z Effects of diversity routing on TCP performance in networks with stochastic channels Effects of diversity routing on Transmission Control Protocol performance in networks with stochastic channels Qian, Yinuo Vincent W.S. Chan and John M. Chapin. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2010. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (p. 93-94). Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is a widely used transport protocol in today's multimedia applications. TCP was originally designed for wired networks, and its performance is highly degraded in networks with stochastically variable links, such as satellite and wireless networks. One significant class of degradation is caused by link dropouts, which may occur due to multipath fading effects in wireless networks, or due to signal attenuation by changing weather conditions and turbulence in satellite channels. In this thesis, we study the effects of a diversity routing strategy on TCP performance in networks with stochastic links. This strategy allows each data sender to send copies of data packets along multiple paths in order to reduce the probability of packet losses. We define TCP efficiency to be the ratio of a data sender's throughput to the network capacity used by this sender. We explore the optimization of TCP efficiency by varying the number of paths along which data packets are sent,denoted as n. We find the optimal number of diversity routing paths n* that maximizes the TCP efficiency, and we observe that the value of n* depends on the variability of the stochastic links. by Yinuo (Mia) Qian. M.Eng. 2011-04-25T15:52:10Z 2011-04-25T15:52:10Z 2010 2010 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/62395 710365774 eng M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 94 p. application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Effects of diversity routing on TCP performance in networks with stochastic channels
title Effects of diversity routing on TCP performance in networks with stochastic channels
title_full Effects of diversity routing on TCP performance in networks with stochastic channels
title_fullStr Effects of diversity routing on TCP performance in networks with stochastic channels
title_full_unstemmed Effects of diversity routing on TCP performance in networks with stochastic channels
title_short Effects of diversity routing on TCP performance in networks with stochastic channels
title_sort effects of diversity routing on tcp performance in networks with stochastic channels
topic Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
url http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/62395
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