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On the performance of TCP, UDP and DCCP over 802.11 g networks

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Leandro Melo de Sales,

Hyggo O. Almeida,

Angelo PerkusichAuthors Info & Claims

SAC '08: Proceedings of the 2008 ACM symposium on Applied computing

Pages 2074 - 2078

https://doi.org/10.1145/1363686.1364187

Published: 16 March 2008 Publication History

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This paper presents an experimental study of streaming multimedia packets using DCCP transport protocol over 802.11 g networks. Our main focus is to study the behavior of DCCP flows over real-time multimedia applications. The approach taken was to use DCCP flows in the presence of TCP and UDP flows, then analyze the behavior of each protocol, mainly in regards to the congestion control algorithms of both protocols. Furthermore, we also considered end-points mobility requirements, such as hand-off between multiples access points. Needless to say, the DCCP protocol was recently standardized by IETF as an alternative for streaming multimedia flows on computer networks. The results presented in this paper show that TCP and DCCP protocols can share the network bandwidth without affecting each other. On the other hand, UDP flows can aggressively degrade TCP and DCCP flows due to the absence of any kind of flow control. Although UDP flows reach high bandwidth throughput, it loses a considerable amount of data taking into account limited bandwidth channels, such as 802.11g networks. Finally, this work also shows that TCP and DCCP can think of loss of packets as network congestion while experimenting hand-offs, thus decreasing their throughput.

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