201. Path Selection of SCTP Fast Retransmission in Multi-homed Wireless Environments
- Author
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Enda Fallon, Austin Hanley, Yuansong Qiao, Liam Murphy, and John Murphy
- Subjects
business.industry ,Computer science ,computer.internet_protocol ,Retransmission ,ComputerSystemsOrganization_COMPUTER-COMMUNICATIONNETWORKS ,Heterogeneous wireless network ,Differential (mechanical device) ,Blocking (statistics) ,Path (graph theory) ,Bandwidth (computing) ,Wireless ,Stream Control Transmission Protocol ,business ,computer ,Computer network - Abstract
In heterogeneous wireless network environments, network connections of a device may have a significant differential. This paper studies the effect of path bandwidth differential on the performance of fast retransmission strategies in Multi-homing environments. It identifies that fast retransmission on an alternate path may cause receive buffer blocking when path bandwidth differential is significant and the receive buffer is limited. A theoretical model is proposed for selecting retransmission path during the fast retransmission phase, which is based on receive buffer and path conditions. The model is verified through simulations with various path differentials.
- Published
- 2008