Experimental evaluation of throughput performance of IRTCP under noisy channels

Abstract

The performance of interference robust TCP (IRTCPJ. which has been aroaosed in Ill to counter the &necessaFy throughput red&on that b&curs when there is packet loss due to interference in mobile networks, is evaluated experimentally and analyzed. Its performance is compared with regular TCP under varying probabilities of occurrence of interference and varying duration of interference bursts. An experimental setup has been developed to generate and inject interference into the network in a controlled environment. A packet level observation of the entire transmission with TCP and then with IRTCP is also presented. Finally our conclusions along with the scope for future work in this area is presented.