• Research
• TCP Performance
  • Motivation
  • flowgrind
  • TCP Issues
  • Related Work
  • List of Literature
• Autoconfiguration

Motivation

The dominant transport protocol in the contemporary Internet is TCP. Although it works very effectively, i.e. the Internet works, it has a number of issues. A explicitly non-exhaustive list of approaches to tackle theses issues may be found here. Some of these issues become especially a concern in environments like Wireless Mesh Networks as they degrade TCP's performance heavily. This penalizes the advantages of WMNs, like deployability, low cots, etc.

The evaluation and analysis of TCP performance in real-world testbeds is necessary to gain insights which are not possible through simulating experiments usually conducted by the networking community. There exist subtle differences in the physic models of common simulation tools, like ns-2 or Seawind, compared to the real world.