Design and evaluation of protocols for wireless networks taking into account the interaction between transport and network layers
Waleed Saleh Al-Numay, Sridhar Radhakrishnan · SHAREOK (University of Oklahoma; Oklahoma State University; Central Oklahoma University) · 2003
We recognized two important shortcomings of the current TCP protocol: misinterpretation of delayed acknowledgments and competition among different TCP flows. In this dissertation, we propose to address these two issues by a use of novel protocol that uses immediate and delayed acknowledgment schemes and provides a coordination mechanism among independent TCP flows. We also address certain important issues that are related to the implementation of our proposed protocol: can we maintain the end-to-end semantics of TCP? Are there additional benefits that can be harvested if intermediate nodes with TCP protocol can be used? (Abstract shortened by UMI.)