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An improved TCP congestion control algorithm in high speed satellite links

  • Feng Liu*
  • , Dong Po Ren
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Beihang University

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Abstract

The throughput of traditional TCP degrades drastically in high speed satellite links, where the characteristics of long round trip time (RTT) and high bit error rate (BER) happen together. Two typical improved algorithms, Hybla and Westwood, are designed to solve the problems of long RTT and high BER respectively. TCP-HW which combines the advantages of Hybla and Westwood is proposed in this paper, on the basis of consideration of both long RTT and high BER. At slow start and congestion avoidance phase, TCP-HW adopts a radical congestion window (cwnd) growth policy to eliminate the low data transmission rate bring by long RTT as Hybla does. At fast retransmit and fast recover phase, TCP-HW updates the cwnd according to the estimated available bandwidth in Westwood to avoid the frequently unnecessary reduction of cwnd due to high BER. There, the cwnd can be kept large enough to achieve high throughput. Simulation results in NS2 indicate that the change of RTT and packet error rate (PER) has little impact on TCP-HW and the bandwidth utilization of TCP-HW can reach more than fifty percent in the 1Gbps GEO satellite link with 500ms RTT and 0.001 PER. In addition, TCP-HW still have good fairness.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Computers, Electronics and Mechatronics
EditorsPrasad Yarlagadda
PublisherTrans Tech Publications Ltd
Pages129-132
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9783038352907
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
EventInternational Forum on Computers, Electronics and Mechatronics, IFCEM 2014 - Zhuhai, China
Duration: 27 Aug 201428 Aug 2014

Publication series

NameApplied Mechanics and Materials
Volume667
ISSN (Print)1660-9336
ISSN (Electronic)1662-7482

Conference

ConferenceInternational Forum on Computers, Electronics and Mechatronics, IFCEM 2014
Country/TerritoryChina
CityZhuhai
Period27/08/1428/08/14

Keywords

  • Congestion control
  • NS2
  • Satellite links
  • TCP

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