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VA-TCP: a vertical handoff-aware TCP

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Yu-Chieh Lin,

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SAC '07: Proceedings of the 2007 ACM symposium on Applied computing

Pages 237 - 238

https://doi.org/10.1145/1244002.1244062

Published: 11 March 2007 Publication History

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A vertical handoff occurs when a multi-homed mobile host roams from a network to another heterogeneous network. Nevertheless, the network before and after a vertical handoff usually have drastic different characteristics. In this paper, we proposed an end-to-end based Vertical-handoff Aware TCP, called VA-TCP, which promptly adapts TCP behavior during a vertical handoff. When entering a new network, on the basis of packet-pair algorithm, VA-TCP dynamically estimates the new network bandwidth and round-trip time by using out-of-band ICMP messages. After that, by the estimated bandwidth and round-trip time, VA-TCP adjusts the TCP parameters including congestion window size, slow-start threshold, retransmission timer and RTTs to respond to the new network environment. From the experimental result, the TCP throughput by the proposed VA-TCP scheme is around 2 times that by the original TCP.

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VA-TCP: a vertical handoff-aware TCP
1. Networks
  1. Network protocols
    1. Network protocol design

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SAC '07: Proceedings of the 2007 ACM symposium on Applied computing

March 2007

1688 pages

ISBN:1595934804

DOI:10.1145/1244002

Conference Chairs:
Yookun Cho
Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
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Roger L. Wainwright
University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma
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Hisham M. Haddad
Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia
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Sung Y. Shin
South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota
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Yong Wan Koo
The University of Suwon, Gyeongggi-do, Korea

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Shah PYousaf MQayyum AMalik SKotsis GTaniar DPardede E(2009)An analysis of service disruption time for TCP applications using end-to-end mobility management protocolsProceedings of the 7th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia10.1145/1821748.1821817(360-364)Online publication date: 14-Dec-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1821748.1821817
Daniel LKojo MZomaya ALandfeldt B(2009)The performance of multiple tcp flows with vertical handoffProceedings of the 7th ACM international symposium on Mobility management and wireless access10.1145/1641776.1641780(17-25)Online publication date: 26-Oct-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1641776.1641780
Shah PRehan MChughtai HQayyum A(2009)On reducing throughput degradation of TCP connection after vertical handover2009 IEEE 13th International Multitopic Conference10.1109/INMIC.2009.5383122(1-4)Online publication date: Dec-2009
https://doi.org/10.1109/INMIC.2009.5383122
Daniel LKojo M(2008)Employing cross-layer assisted TCP algorithms to improve TCP performance with vertical handoffsInternational Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems10.1504/IJCNDS.2008.0210781:4/5/6(433-465)Online publication date: 1-Nov-2008
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