摘要
A scheme of setting a limit to the TCP sending window size is proposed to improve the TCP fairness between upload and/or download flows in wired-cum-wireless networks. The goodput and delay of the upload and download TCP flows arc compared to evaluate the TCP fairness for different schemes, which are the different combinations of setting a limit （64 or 4） to the sending window size and using the delayed acknowledgement （ACK） scheme or not. Extensive simulation results and analysis show that （ 1 ） for TCP download flows, setting the limit of sending window size to 4 can improve the fairness; （2） for TCP upload flows, limiting the sending window size and using the delayed ACK strategy are both beneficial to fairness; （3） for TCP download and upload mixture flows, limiting the sending window size to a small value （ e. g. , 4） rather than using the delayed ACK strategy, is the solution to improvement of the fairness ; （4） a large delay interval （200 ms or 300 ms） does not result in improvement in fairness and performance; （ 5 ） a larger TCP packet size （ 1400 B） can improve the TCP upload goodput and decrease the download goodput; in contrast, a smaller TCP packet size （560 B） can increase the download goodput and decrease the upload goodput.
A scheme of setting a limit to the TCP sending window size is proposed to improve the TCP fairness between upload and/or download flows in wired-cum-wireless networks. The goodput and delay of the upload and download TCP flows arc compared to evaluate the TCP fairness for different schemes, which are the different combinations of setting a limit （64 or 4） to the sending window size and using the delayed acknowledgement （ACK） scheme or not. Extensive simulation results and analysis show that （ 1 ） for TCP download flows, setting the limit of sending window size to 4 can improve the fairness; （2） for TCP upload flows, limiting the sending window size and using the delayed ACK strategy are both beneficial to fairness; （3） for TCP download and upload mixture flows, limiting the sending window size to a small value （ e. g. , 4） rather than using the delayed ACK strategy, is the solution to improvement of the fairness ; （4） a large delay interval （200 ms or 300 ms） does not result in improvement in fairness and performance; （ 5 ） a larger TCP packet size （ 1400 B） can improve the TCP upload goodput and decrease the download goodput; in contrast, a smaller TCP packet size （560 B） can increase the download goodput and decrease the upload goodput.
基金
The National Science Foundation of Chi-na (No.90412010)
the Major State Basic Research Devel-opment Program of China(973 Proguam) (No.2003CB317003)
