TCP-R with EPDN: Handling out of Order Packets in Error Prone Satellite Networks

Arjuna SATHIASEELAN
DOI: 10.4236/ijcns.2009.27078                

Abstract

Studies have shown that packet reordering is common, especially in satellite networks where there are link level retransmissions and multipath routing. Moreover, traditional satellite networks exhibit high corruption rates causing packet losses. Reordering and corruption of packets decrease the TCP performance of a network, mainly because it leads to overestimation of the congestion in the network. We consider satellite networks and analyze the performance of such networks when reordering and corruption of packets occurs. We propose a solution that could significantly improve the performance of the network when reordering and corruption of packets occur in a satellite network. We report results of our simulation experiments, which support this claim.

Keywords

TCP, Packet, Reorder, Throughput, Drops, Congestion, Multipath, Satellite

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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