WIP: Waveform Independent Congestion Control Protocol
Scott Pudlewski · 2017
This paper introduces a congestion control protocol for lossy wireless networks. The Waveform Independent congestion control Protocol (WIP) is a congestion control protocol designed to work well in extremely lossy wireless networks. It accomplishes this by comparing the packet transmit rate and the receive capacity. The difference between these two values is then used to determine whether there is congestion in the network. WIP can integrate into many existing protocols, as it only defines a change in the congestion indication technique and is independent of the window evolution and delivery guarantee transport layer functionality. We test this protocol in simulation and compare it to traditional loss-based congestion indication and demonstrate that it performs far better in lossy networks.