2003/11/27 by Milenko Petrovic, Petrovic, Milenko, Mokhtar Aboelaze +1
Computer Science · Engineering · #Advanced Wireless Network Optimization #C.2.1 #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Mobile Ad Hoc Networks #Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI) #Performance (cs.PF) #Wireless Networks and Protocols #cs.NI #cs.PF
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cs/0311049
9 pages, 5 figures, ICT 2003 (10th International Conference on Telecommunication)
arxiv created 2003/11/27 · openalex publication_date 2003/11/27 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
TCP is the De facto standard for connection oriented transport layer protocol, while UDP is the De facto standard for transport layer protocol, which is used with real time traffic for audio and video. Although there have been many attempts to measure and analyze the performance of the TCP protocol in wireless networks, very few research was done on the UDP or the interaction between TCP and UDP traffic over the wireless link. In this paper, we tudy the performance of TCP and UDP over IEEE802.11 ad hoc network. We used two topologies, a string and a mesh topology. Our work indicates that IEEE802.11 as a ad-hoc network is not very suitable for bulk transfer using TCP. It also indicates that it is much better for real-time audio. Although one has to be careful here since real-time audio does require much less bandwidth than the wireless link bandwidth. Careful and detailed studies are needed to further clarify that issue.