UP Paper 262 US-M-FAT BOTTOM
A Performance Comparison Study of End-to-End Congestion Control Protocols over MIMO Fading Channels
Yousefi'zadeh,HomayounBoeing
Habibi,AmirUC, Irvine
Furmanski,WojtekBoeing
We study the performance of end-to-end congestion control protocols, namely, VCP and TCP/AQM+ECN over wireless topologies created by MIMO fading channel links. We model the loss characteristic of such links with finite-state Markov chains the parameters of which can be derived from the fading channel specifications. We also investigate the effects of utilizing Forward Error Correction (FEC) techniques at the link layer in order to improve the performance of the above congestion control protocols. Our numerical results are generated utilizing NS2 discrete-event simulator. Our results show that without using link layer FEC techniques, the performance of both VCP and TCP/AQM+ECN in wireless networks can be significantly degraded. Further, they show that the use of MIMO links can significantly improve the performance of the protocols of our study.
Homayoun Yousefi’zadeh received the Ph.D. degree from the Department of EE-Systems at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles in 1997. He is currently a consulting scientist at the Boeing Company and an Assistant Adjunct Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine. Most recently, he was the CTO of TierFleet, Inc., working on distributed database systems, a Senior Technical and Business Manager at Procom Technology, focusing on storage networking, and a Technical Consultant at NEC Electronics, designing and implementing distributed client–server systems. He is the author of more than 30 peer reviewed journal and conference papers and the inventor of three patents. Dr. Yousefi’zadeh is a senior member of IEEE, is with the editorial board of two IEEE journals, and has been with the technical program committees of various IEEE and ACM conferences. He has also served as the Chairperson of systems’ management workgroup of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), as a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Integrated Media Services Center (IMSC) at the University of Southern California, and as a member of American Management Association.