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Loss Discrimination Mechanism for Improving the Performance of TFRC in Last-hop Wireless Networks

라스트 홉 무선 네트워크에서 TFRC의 성능향상을 위한 손실 구별 기법

  • 정규민 (광운대학교 전자통신공학과) ;
  • 구자헌 (광운대학교 전자통신공학과) ;
  • 정광수 (광운대학교 전자통신공학과)
  • Published : 2010.02.15
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Abstract

The TFRC is a congestion control mechanism which supports the requirements of video streaming applications and controls its sending rate by using the information such as loss event rate and RTT (round-trip time). However, TFRC has a performance degradation in wireless networks because it performs congestion control by judging all the losses occurred in wireless network as a congestion signal. In this paper, we propose new loss discrimination mechanism which is using ECN in order to solve the performance degradation of TFRC. Through the results of simulation, we proved that the proposed mechanism can improve the performance of TFRC.

TFRC(TCP Friendly Rate Control)는 비디오 스트리밍 응용의 요구 조건을 만족시키는 혼잡제어 기법으로써, 손실 사건률과 왕복 지연 시간 등의 정보를 이용하여 전송률을 조절한다. 그런데 TFRC는 무선 네트워크에서 발생하는 손실을 모두 혼잡 손실로 판단하고 혼잡제어를 수행하기 때문에 성능이 저하되는 문제가 있다. 본 논문에서는 이를 해결하기 위해 ECN(Explicit Congestion Notification) 정보를 이용하는 새로운 손실 구별 기법을 제안하였다. 실험을 통해 제안한 기법이 무선 네트워크에서 TFRC의 성능을 향상시킴을 확인하였다.

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