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TCP Westwood(+) protocol implementation in ns-3

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Siddharth Gangadhar,

Truc Anh N. Nguyen,

Greeshma Umapathi,

James P. G. SterbenzAuthors Info & Claims

SimuTools '13: Proceedings of the 6th International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques

Pages 167 - 175

Published: 05 March 2013 Publication History

Abstract

The poor performance of conventional TCP protocols in error prone channels is a well studied issue. Numerous optimizations to TCP to address this problem have been proposed. TCP Westwood is one such protocol engineered for use in wireless networks and employs a novel bandwidth estimation algorithm to determine the amount of data sent into the network in the presence of packet drops. In this paper, we present the implementation of the TCP Westwood and Westwood+ protocols in ns-3 and compare them against other existing ns-3 TCP implementations, TCP Tahoe, Reno, and NewReno. We validate our implementation by comparing performance of our implementation to the original work that introduced the Westwood protocols. In addition to validation, this paper also contributes as a performance evaluation of all existing ns-3 TCP protocols over selected network conditions.

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Nguyen TSterbenz JSwenson BGamess ERicardo M(2017)An Implementation and Analysis of SCPS-TP in ns-3Proceedings of the 2017 Workshop on ns-310.1145/3067665.3067679(17-23)Online publication date: 13-Jun-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3067665.3067679
Nguyen TGangadhar SSterbenz J(2016)Performance Evaluation of TCP Congestion Control Algorithms in Data Center NetworksProceedings of the 11th International Conference on Future Internet Technologies10.1145/2935663.2935669(21-28)Online publication date: 15-Jun-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2935663.2935669
Nguyen TGangadhar SRahman MSterbenz JGamess ESwenson BTazaki HHenderson T(2016)An Implementation of Scalable, Vegas, Veno, and YeAH Congestion Control Algorithms in ns-3Proceedings of the 2016 Workshop on ns-310.1145/2915371.2915386(17-24)Online publication date: 15-Jun-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2915371.2915386
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TCP Westwood(+) protocol implementation in ns-3
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Modeling and simulation
2. Networks
  1. Network protocols

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SimuTools '13: Proceedings of the 6th International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques

March 2013

363 pages

ISBN:9781450324649

General Chair:
Jan Himmelspach
University of Rostock, Germany
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University of Antwerp, Belgium
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Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

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Nguyen TSterbenz JSwenson BGamess ERicardo M(2017)An Implementation and Analysis of SCPS-TP in ns-3Proceedings of the 2017 Workshop on ns-310.1145/3067665.3067679(17-23)Online publication date: 13-Jun-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3067665.3067679
Nguyen TGangadhar SSterbenz J(2016)Performance Evaluation of TCP Congestion Control Algorithms in Data Center NetworksProceedings of the 11th International Conference on Future Internet Technologies10.1145/2935663.2935669(21-28)Online publication date: 15-Jun-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2935663.2935669
Nguyen TGangadhar SRahman MSterbenz JGamess ESwenson BTazaki HHenderson T(2016)An Implementation of Scalable, Vegas, Veno, and YeAH Congestion Control Algorithms in ns-3Proceedings of the 2016 Workshop on ns-310.1145/2915371.2915386(17-24)Online publication date: 15-Jun-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2915371.2915386
Casoni MGrazia CKlapez MPatriciello NGamess EBarnes PTazaki HBaldo N(2015)Implementation and validation of TCP options and congestion control algorithms for ns-3Proceedings of the 2015 Workshop on ns-310.1145/2756509.2756518(112-119)Online publication date: 13-May-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2756509.2756518
Levasseur BClaypool MKinicki RRiley GBarnes PPerrone L(2014)A TCP CUBIC implementation in ns-3Proceedings of the 2014 Workshop on ns-310.1145/2630777.2630780(1-8)Online publication date: 7-May-2014
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