Abstract
Performance of TCP can be severely degraded in WLP-based Mobile IP networks due to packet loss. It is not related to network congestion that occurs frequently during inter-subnetwork handover of user. To solve this problem, packet buffering method recovers packets dropped during handover by forwarding packets buffered at old BS to mobile nodes. But if a mobile node moves to a congested BS of a new foreign subnetwork, buffered packets will be dropped. And TCP transmission performance of the mobile node degrades severely. In this paper, we propose a buffer management with considering handover to provide a new disposal standard for handover packets. Simulation results show that the proposed buffer management provides a link utilization improvement in congested wireless links.
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Abbreviations
- avg_q:
-
Average queue size
- BS:
-
Bridge station
- CH:
-
Correspondent host
- FA:
-
Foreign agent
- HA:
-
Home agent
- HRED:
-
Handover-based RED
- MN:
-
Mobile node
- mws:
-
Maximum window size
- RED:
-
Random early detection
- WLP:
-
WiMedia logical link protocol
- WSS:
-
WLP service set
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This research was supported in part by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education (NRF-2009-0093828) and in part by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (MSIP), Korea, under Grant IITP-2015-H8601-15-1006 of the Convergence Information Technology Research Center (C-ITRC) program supervised by the Institute for Information and Communications Technology Promotion (IITP).
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Lee, S.B., Hur, K. & Lee, S.R. An Enhanced Buffer Management for Handover in WiMedia WLP-Based Mobile IP Networks. Wireless Pers Commun 85, 2711–2725 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-015-2929-6
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