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Authors:
Weikai Wang
Celimuge Wu
Satoshi Ohzahata
Toshihiko Kato
Keywords: TCP; Transmission Interruption; Bursty Packet Losses; Retransmission; SACK Based Loss Recovery.
Abstract:
Although TCP was originally designed to provide the reliable data transfer over the Internet, packet losses detected in TCP are considered as an indication of network congestion due to the high quality of data transmission provided by recent transmission technologies and media access control technologies. However, packet losses can be caused by transmission interruptions such as handoffs in the mobile networks and protection switching in the transport networks. These packet losses are bursty because the transmission interruptions continue for tens of miliseconds through several seconds. In this paper, we describe the experimental analysis of TCP behaviors by inserting errors such that all packets are lost during transmission interruptions. We have tested various TCP versions including those in Linux, that in Windows and that in Mac OS. This paper suggests (1) that the tested TCPs in Linux follow the similar procedure and retransmit lost packets quickly, (2) that TCP in Windows also behaves well but the increase of congestion window seems to be limited, and (3) that TCP in Mac OS has shown some problems in retransmitting contiguously lost packets.
Pages: 136 to 141
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2014
Publication date: February 23, 2014
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-4413
ISBN: 978-1-61208-318-6
Location: Nice, France
Dates: from February 23, 2014 to February 27, 2014