Abstract
Researches on mobile ad hoc networks have been concentrated on implementations and performance comparisons of routing protocols. Few attention was paid to the interaction between end-to-end TCP traffic flows and these routing protocols. In this paper, we study the performance of two reactive on-demand routing protocols - DSR and AODV based on TCP traffic flows. Our performance simulations show that DSR performs better in a small window size and AODV work better in a large window size. Both of them need further improvements to provide better performance for TCP flow transmission. In addition, current TCP implementations can not guarantee a stable performance because they are lack of the ability to distinguish packet losses caused by network congestions or by route failures. The effects of interactions among routing, MAC and TCP protocol are also briefly discussed. This paper provides performance comparisons based on several important performance metrics - throughput, good-put and normalized routing overhead.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 272-275 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue number | 54ND |
| State | Published - 2001 |
| Event | IEEE 54th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC FALL 2001) - Atlantic City, NJ, United States Duration: 7 Oct 2001 → 11 Oct 2001 |