End-to-end reliability in UMTS: TCP over ARQ

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Abstract

The focus of this paper is end-to-end reliable transmission in UMTS environment where TCP, a reliable tranport protocol designed to retransmit information in case of loss, is present at the mobile station as well as the wired portion of the network. The mobile and wireless portion of the network, characterized by significant error figures, relies on ARQ to detect and retransmit corrupted frames. In this work, we propose an analytical model for the operation of TCP over ARQ. We investigate several error patterns corresponding to random, slow and fast fading channels. Our results quantify the enhanced performance of TCP over ARQ in terms of throughput as a function of both loss and error.

Original languageEnglish
Pages3473-3477
Number of pages5
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2001
EventIEEE Global Telecommunications Conference GLOBECOM'01 - San Antonio, TX, United States
Duration: 25 Nov 200129 Nov 2001

Conference

ConferenceIEEE Global Telecommunications Conference GLOBECOM'01
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Antonio, TX
Period25/11/0129/11/01

Keywords

  • End-to-end reliability
  • TCP over ARQ
  • UMTS

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