Research on modeling wireless links for evaluating performance of transport
protocols
Below is a list of papers that used a simulation model for evaluating performance
of end-to-end transport protocols over wireless links.
General
- V. Tsaoussidis, I. Matta,
Open issues on
TCP for mobile computing, The Journal of Wireless Communications and
Mobile Computing, John Wiley & Sons, Issue 1, Vol. 2, February 2002.
- J. Heidemann, N. Bulusu, J. Elson, C. Intanagonwiwat, K. Lan, Y. Xu,
W. Ye, D. Estrin, and R. Govindan,
Effects of
Detail in Wireless Network Simulation, In Proceedings of the SCS
Multiconference on Distributed Simulation, January, 2001.
Error losses
- H. Balakrishnan, R. Katz, Explicit Loss Notification
and Wireless Web Performance , Proc. IEEE Globecom Internet Mini-Conference,
Sydney, Australia, November 1998.
- A. Konrad, B. Zhao, A. Joseph, R. Ludwig,
A Markov-Based
Channel Model Algorithm for Wireless Networks, ACM MSWiM, July 2001.
Also in ACM Wireless Networks, vol. 9, num. 3, May 2003.
- R. Ludwig, B. Rathonyi, A. Konrad, K. Oden, and A. Joseph.
Multi-layer
Tracing of TCP over a Reliable Wireless Link. Proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS
1999.
- G. Xylomenos and G. Polyzos,
Quality of Service Support
over Multi-Service Wireless Internet Links, Computer Networks, vol.
37, no. 5, 2001, pp. 601-615.
- A. Gurtov,
TCP Performance
in the Presence of Congestion and Corruption Losses, Master's Thesis,
University of Helsinki, Department of Computer Science, Helsinki, December
2000.
- C. Casetti, M. Gerla, S. Mascolo, M. Y. Sanadidi, and R. Wang,
TCP Westwood: Bandwidth Estimation
for EnhancedTransport over Wireless Links, In Proceedings of ACM Mobicom
2001.
- H. Chaskar, T.V. Lakshman, U. Madhow,
On the design of interfaces
for TCP/IP over wireless, in: Proceedings of IEEE MILCOM, 1996.
- S. Biaz and N. H. Vaidya.
Discriminating
congestion losses from wireless losses using inter-arrival times at the
receiver, IEEE Symposium ASSET'99.
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S. Cen, P. Cosman, G. Voelker,
End-to-end Differentiaion of Congestion and Wireless Losses,
Transactions on Networking. (To appear)
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W. Eddy, S. Ostermann, M. Allman, New
Techniques for Making
Transport Protocols Robust to Corruption-Based Loss. July 2003. Under
submission.
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N. Samaraweera, G. Fairhurst,
Reinforcement
of TCP error recovery for wireless communication, ACM CCR, April 1998.
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J. Ar�uz, P. Krishnamurthy, Markov Modeling of 802.11
Channels, In Proc. of IEEE VTC'03, October 2003.
Delay variation
- M. Allman, J. Griner, A. Richard,
TCP Behavior in Networks with
Dynamic Propagation Delay. Proceedings of Globecom 2000, November 2000.
- P. Sarolahti, M. Kojo, K. Raatikainen,
F-RTO: A New
Recovery Algorithm for TCP Retransmission Timeouts, Helsinki, February
2002 Report C-2002-07 University of Helsinki
- Y. Swami, K. Le, DCLOR:
De-correlated
Loss Recovery using SACK option for spurious timeouts, draft-swami-tsvwg-tcp-dclor-01.txt
- A. Gurtov, R. Ludwig,
Responding to
Spurious Timeouts in TCP, IEEE INFOCOM'03, April 2003.
- M. Meyer,
TCP
performance over GPRS, WCNC99.
Bandwidth variation
Asymmetry
- T. Henderson, R. Katz,
Transport protocols
for internet-compatible satellite networks, IEEE Journal of Selected Areas
in Communications, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 345-359, February 1999.
- H. Balakrishnan, V. Padmanabhan, R. Katz,
The effects
of asymmetry on TCP performance, Proc. Third ACM/IEEE Mobicom Conference,
Budapest, Hungary, Sep 1997.
MAC
Handoffs
- C. Blondia, N. Van den Wijngaert, G. Willems, O. Casals,
Performance
Analysis of Optimized Smooth Handoff in Mobile IP, Proceedings of the
5th ACM International workshop on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless
and Mobile Systems, Atlanta, September 2002.
- P. Manzoni and D. Ghosal and G. Serazzi,
Impact of Mobility on
TCP/IP: An Integrated Performance Study, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas
of Communication, Special Issue on Mobile and Wireless Computing Networks,
Vol. 13, No. 5, June 1995.
- A. Gurtov, J. Korhonen,
Measurement and
Analysis of TCP-Friendly Rate Control for Vertical Handovers, submitted
for publication.
Other related topics
Traffic characterization
-
E. Halepovic, C. Williamson, and M. Ghaderi,
Wireless Data Traffic: a Decade of Change,
IEEE Network, March 2009.
"New applications emerged, such as peer-to-peer file sharing, online
gaming, and multimedia, establishing a trend of significant increase in
traffic volume."
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N. K. Shankaranarayanan, Anupam Rastogi, and Zhimei Jiang,
Performance of a wireless data network with mixed interactive user
workloads, ICC'02.
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Thomas Kunz, Thomas Barry, Xinan Zhou, James P. Black, and Hugh Mahoney,
"WAP traffic: Description and comparison to WWW traffic", Proceedings of
the Third ACM International Workshop on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation
of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM 2000), Boston, USA, pp. 11-19,
August 2000.
- Traffic Model, 3 GPP
spec
Section 10.3.3
Tools
- B. Noble, M. Satyanarayanan, G. Nguyen, R. Katz,
Trace-Based Mobile
Network Emulation, Sigcomm'97 (also RFC2041)
- Mobile Networking
in ns
- Satellite Networking
in ns
- M. Kojo, A. Gurtov, J. Manner, P. Sarolahti, T. Alanko, and K. Raatikainen,
Seawind: a Wireless
Network Emulator, In Proceedings of 11th GI/ITG Conference on Measuring,
Modelling and Evaluation of Computer and Communication Systems (MMB'01), September
2001.
Projects
- UC Berkeley,
BARWAN,
bay area wireless network
- UC Berkeley,
Tapas, behavior
of various non-stationary characteristics of network links.
- University of Helsinki,
IIP-Wireless, Improving
Internet Protocols for Wireless Links.
Workshops
Notes
GPRS
- R. Kalden, I. Meirick, M. Meyer,
Wireless Internet
Access based on GPRS, IEEE Personal Communications, 7(2), April 2000.
- D. Staehle, K. Leibnitz, K. Tsipotis,
QoS
of internet access with GPRS, MSWiM, 2001.
- R. Chakravorty, S. Katti, J. Crowcroft, I. Pratt,
Flow Aggregation
for Enhanced TCP over Wide Area Wireless, IEEE INFOCOM 2003, April
2003.
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