Wang, S. Y.; Kung, H. T. Use of TCP decoupling in improving TCP performance over wireless networks. (English) Zbl 1012.68948 Wireless Networks 7, No. 3, 221-236 (2001). Summary: We propose using the TCP decoupling approach to improve a TCP connection’s goodput over wireless networks. The performance improvement can be analytically shown to be proportional to \(\sqrt{\text{MTU/HP\_Sz}}\), where MTU is the maximum transmission unit of participating wireless links and HP_Sz is the size of a packet containing only a TCP/IP header. For example, on a WaveLAN wireless network, where MTU is 1500 bytes and HP_Sz is 40 bytes, the achieved goodput improvement is about 350%. We present experimental results demonstrating that TCP decoupling outperforms TCP reno and TCP SACK. These results confirm the analysis of \(\sqrt{\text{MTU/HP\_Sz}}\) performance improvement. MSC: 68U99 Computing methodologies and applications 68M10 Network design and communication in computer systems Keywords:TCP; wireless networks; performance PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{S. Y. Wang} and \textit{H. T. Kung}, Wirel. Netw. 7, No. 3, 221--236 (2001; Zbl 1012.68948) Full Text: DOI