A Novel Wireless TCP and its Steady State Throughput Model

Unlike wired networks, random packet loss due to bit errors may cause significant performance degradation of Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). We propose and study a novel end-to-end congestion control mechanism called TCP-LD ( Loss Detection ) that is simple and effective for dealing with random packet loss. We also give its steady state throughput model. Both the ns2 and numerical simulation results show that our scheme can achieve significant throughput improvements without adversely affecting other concurrent TCP connections, including other concurrent Reno connections both in wired and wireless environment.