Performance Evaluation of TCP over WLAN 802.11 with the Snoop Performance Enhancing Proxy

9/11/02


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Table of Contents

Performance Evaluation of TCP over WLAN 802.11 with the Snoop Performance Enhancing Proxy

Roadmap

Problem formulation

Project goals

TCP retransmission policy

TCP transmission window

Wireless LAN using TCP

Adding the Snoop agent

Snoop protocol

OPNET implementation

Two additional protocol layers

PEG process model

Packet error generator: PEG

Snoop agent process model

Snoop cache

Cache functions

Snoop connection table

Snoop_Data()

Snoop_Ack()

TCP parameters

Scenario 1: Single mobile upload

Scenario 1: parameters

Upload response time

Packet caching

Congestion window size

Sequence numbers

Retransmission timeout

Scenario 2: Multiple mobile downloads

Scenario 2: parameters

Download response time

Scenario 3: Multiple mobile uploads

Scenario 3: parameters

Upload response time

Conclusions

References

Author: Chi-ho Ng, Jack Chow, and Ljiljana Trajkovic

Email: ljilja@sc.sfu.ca