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Publication Type : Journal Article
Publisher : Indian Journal of Science and Technology
Source : Indian Journal of Science and Technology, Indian Society for Education and Environment, Volume 8, Number 19 (2015)
Campus : Coimbatore
School : School of Engineering
Department : Computer Science
Year : 2015
Abstract : In Ad-hoc networks every single node or station takes the responsibility to forward the data packets from the nodes that lie in the range with them. This additional routing responsibility might lead to performance degradation in some cases. Moreover, it is also reported that TCP which is designed for wired networks exhibit poor performance in terms of throughput and fairness in ad-hoc networks. Attempts to alleviate this issue included solutions from both TCP and MAC layer protocol modifications. This work aims at in-depth analysis of MAC level solutions (basic 802.11, 802.11 with RTS/CTS and Collision Detection Mechanism Based-MAC) to address TCP unfairness problem in 802.11-based multi-hop networks. A set of simulation based experiments are conducted and their observations are analyzed using metrics like throughput, goodput and loss probability. The metric loss probability is taken to investigate the protocols both from the perspective of congestion and collision i.e. the impact of congestion window and contention procedure on the end-to-end performance. The results obtained from the simulation revealed the inefficiency of the CDMB-MAC in the scenarios where hidden and exposed terminals do not exist. Further when TCP congestion window is set to 1 the basic 802.11 MAC is found sufficient to provide higher throughput with better fairness among the TCP connections but when TCP congestion window size is increased to 32 the 802.11 MAC with RTS/CTS scheme gives better performance. Added to this all the three MAC protocols fail in the scenario where the source and destination of a connection lie in the transmission ranges of destination and source of other connections. Therefore it can be concluded that it is indispensable to design an adaptive MAC protocol that could provide Fairness among TCP connections in all scenarios.
Cite this Research Publication : Govindarajan J., Devi, G. Aa, and Kousalya, Gb, “Analysis of TCP-unfairness from MAC layer perspective in wireless Ad-hoc networks”, Indian Journal of Science and Technology, vol. 8, 2015.