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10th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'05)
pp. 51-56
TPA: A Transport Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks
G. Anastasi, University of Pisa
E. Ancillotti, University of Pisa and CNR-IIT Institute
M. Conti, CNR-IIT Institute
A. Passarella, University of Pisa
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Several previous works have shown that TCP exhibits poor performance in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs). The ultimate reason for this is that MANETs behave in a significantly different way from traditional wired networks, like the Internet, for which TCP was originally designed. In this paper we propose a novel transport protocol — named TPA — specifically tailored to the characteristics of the MANET environment. It is based on a completely new congestion control mechanism, and designed in such a way to minimize the number of useless transmissions and, hence, power consumption. Furthermore, it is able to manage efficiently route changes and route failures. We evaluated the TPA protocol in a static scenario where TCP exhibits good performance. Simulation results show that, even in such a scenario, TPA significantly outperforms TCP.
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G. Anastasi, E. Ancillotti, M. Conti, A. Passarella,
"TPA: A Transport Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks,"
iscc,
pp. 51-56,
10th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'05),
2005
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