Can MAC waiting time improve TCP performance over Ad-hoc networks?

Abstract

TCP is the most transport protocol used in internet. Today, there is an increasing demand for high-throughput wireless data transmission. In wireless communication mode, TCP doesn't provide a high-throughput due to the difficulty in making a difference between congestion problem and error transmission caused by collision, lost of route or link error. In this paper, we propose the MAC waiting time as a parameter that will help TCP to differentiate losses and to improve its performance.