Systematic Measurement of TCP Performance over Wireless LANs
Berthold Rathke, Morten Schläger, Adam Wolisz · 2001
One challenge in the development of telecommunication networks is the seamless integration of wireless devices into the global Internet. Although it is well known that a wireless end-system suffers from the characteristics of the wireless link systematic measurements are still missing. In this paper we present results of a systematic measurement of TCP performance over wireless LANs. In this measurement we investigated location dependent throughput of a whole wireless radio cell. We used pre 802.11 compatible wireless LAN technologies with link layer error control and without. 1. Introduction It is well known that TCP suffers from the loss and delay characteristics of wireless links. Several approaches have been presented to improve the performance. However most of the investigation were based on simulation or measurement with artificial assumptions about the wireless link (e.g error generator) [1]. In contrast to this the results presented in this technical report are obtained...