Masking Lossy Networks by TCP Tunnel with Network Coding

• Ha, Nguyen Viet

• Kumazoe, Kazumi

• Tsukamoto, Kazuya

• Tsuru, Masato

Abstract

Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) with Network Coding (TCP/NC) was designed to recover the lost packets without TCP retransmission to improve the goodput performance in lossy networks. However, TCP/NC is too costly to be implemented in some types of end devices, e.g., with less memory and power. In addition, TCP/NC across loss-free but thin networks may waste scarce link bandwidth due to the redundant combination packets sacrificed for the lossy network. In this paper, we propose the TCP/NC tunnel to convey end-to-end TCP sessions on a single TCP/NC flow traversing a lossy network between two special gateways without per-flow management. We implemented and validated our proposal in Network Simulator 3, in which each gateway runs a reinforced version of TCP/NC that we previously developed. The results show that the proposed TCP/NC tunnel can mitigate the goodput degradation of end-to-end TCP sessions traversing a lossy network without any change in TCP on each end host.

Journal

• 2017 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC)

  2017 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC) 1290-1295, 2017-07-06

  IEEE

Details

• CRID: 1050574047135148544
• NII Article ID: 120006693822
• HANDLE: 10228/00006961
• Web Site: https://kyutech.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/5750
• Text Lang: en
• Article Type: conference paper
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