TACK
Tong Li, Kai Zheng, Ke Xu, Rahul Jadhav, Tao Xiong, Keith Winstein, Kun Tan
Abstract
The shared nature of the wireless medium induces contention between data transport and backward signaling, such as acknowledgement. The current way of TCP acknowledgment induces control overhead which is counter-productive for TCP performance especially in wireless local area network (WLAN) scenarios.
Topics & Concepts
AcknowledgementComputer networkComputer scienceOverhead (engineering)WirelessWireless networkTelecommunicationsOperating systemNetwork Traffic and Congestion ControlAdvanced Wireless Network OptimizationWireless Networks and Protocols