TCP-Friendly Retransmission Persistence Management for SR-ARQ Protocols

Jechan HAN  Beomjoon KIM  Jaiyong LEE  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E92-B   No.10   pp.3243-3246
Publication Date: 2009/10/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
DOI: 10.1587/transcom.E92.B.3243
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Fundamental Theories for Communications
Keyword: 
selective repeat ARQ,  retransmission persistence,  TCP loss recovery,  spurious retransmission timeout,  

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Summary: 
This letter proposes a new retransmission persistence management scheme for selective repeat automatic repeat request (SR-ARQ). By considering the overall traffic load that has to be managed by SR-ARQ, the proposed scheme arbitrates the retransmission persistence to prevent an abrupt delay increment due to excessive link-level local retransmissions. OPNET simulations show that SR-ARQ performs better with the proposed scheme than with a fixed value of retransmission persistence in terms of the throughput of transmission control protocol (TCP).