IPSJ Digital Courier
Online ISSN : 1349-7456
ISSN-L : 1349-7456
A Mechanism for TCP Performance Improvement in Asymmetrical Broadband Access Environment
Teruyuki HasegawaToru Hasegawa
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2006 Volume 2 Pages 108-119

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This paper describes a novel mechanism for achieving sufficient TCP performance in bulk data transfer in some asymmetrical environment without introducing additional functions in customer premises. On today's Internet, several types of broadband access media have an asymmetrical bandwidth characteristic, whereby the downstream link bandwidth is larger than the upstream. However, such an asymmetrical environment may cause TCP performance degradation due to upstream link congestion. To solve this problem, we propose a PEP-based approach to improve TCP file downloading throughput by reducing upstream traffic, using our “oversized MSS with compulsory IP fragmentation”technique. The results of our performance evaluation show that our experimental proxy implementation is capable of accelerating TCP throughput to about three times as fast as without the proxy.

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© 2006 by the Information Processing Society of Japan
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