TCP Reno over Adaptive CSMA

Details TCP Reno over Adaptive CSMA TCP Reno over Adaptive CSMA

2010-07-29

arxiv.org/abs/1007.5239v2

Computer Science

Networking and Internet Architecture

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An interesting distributed adaptive CSMA MAC protocol, called adaptive CSMA, was proposed recently to schedule any strictly feasible achievable rates inside the capacity region. Of particular interest is the fact that the adaptive CSMA can achieve a system utility arbitrarily close to that is achievable under a central scheduler. However, a specially designed transport-layer rate controller is needed for this result. An outstanding question is whether the widely-installed TCP Reno is compatible with adaptive CSMA and can achieve the same result. The answer to this question will determine how close to practical deployment adaptive CSMA is. Our answer is yes and no. First, we observe that running TCP Reno directly over adaptive CSMA results in severe starvation problems. Effectively, its performance is no better than that of TCP Reno over legacy CSMA (IEEE 802.11), and the potentials of adaptive CSMA cannot be realized. Fortunately, we find that multi-connection TCP Reno over adaptive CSMA with active queue management can materialize the advantages of adaptive CSMA. NS-2 simulations demonstrate that our solution can alleviate starvation and achieve fair and efficient rate allocation. Multi-connection TCP can be implemented at either application or transport layer. Application-layer implementation requires no kernel modification, making the solution readily deployable in networks running adaptive CSMA.

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