Title: Fairness between TCP Reno and TCP Vegas in wired and wireless network

Authors: Sukant Kishoro Bisoy; Prasant Kumar Pattnaik

Addresses: Computer Science and Engineering Department, Siksha 'O' Anusandhan University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha-751030, India ' School of Computer Engineering, KIIT University, Patia, Bhubaneswar, Odisha-751024, India

Abstract: For the efficient utilisation of internet resources, it is often required to find fairness in one protocol with the others. In this paper, we proposed a network model to revisit the fairness between Reno and Vegas. The proposed model can help us to better understand the reasons of incompatibility between TCP Reno and TCP Vegas and method to improve them. We analyse inter-protocol fairness between TCP Reno and TCP Vegas in wired network focusing on many issues. For wired network we use both droptail and random early detection (RED) as queue management techniques. Then, fairness between Reno and Vegas is analysed in static multi hop wireless network considering many issues. A new parameter percentage share of throughput (PST) is introduced to measure fairness. Result shows that fairness between Reno and Vegas is better at TCP+DelAck/RED then others.

Keywords: inter-protocol fairness; delayed acknowledgement; TCP Reno; TCP Vegas; transmission control protocol; wired networks; wireless networks; internet resources; resource utilisation; incompatibility; droptail; random early detection; RED; queue management; throughput; fairness measures.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCSYSE.2017.083137

International Journal of Computational Systems Engineering, 2017 Vol.3 No.1/2, pp.14 - 26

Received: 09 Mar 2016
Accepted: 04 Jul 2016

Published online: 21 Mar 2017 *

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