TCP throughput optimization over 802.11 MAC protocol in multi-hop ad-hoc networks.

• Main Authors: Armaghani, Farzaneh R., Khatun, Sabira, Jamuar, Sudhanshu Shekhar, A. Rasid, Mohd Fadlee
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: Praise Worthy Prize 2008
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/16966/1/TCP%20throughput%20optimization%20over%20802.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/16966/
• Institution: Universiti Putra Malaysia

The acknowledgment strategy has great potential to increase the TCP throughput when it runs over 802.11 MAC protocol. In particular TCP acknowledgments carry out an extensive number of medium accesses as they compete in the same route as data packets for media. As the load increases, the well-known...