Adaptive Network Coding Scheme for TCP over Wireless Sensor Networks
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to develop a network coding scheme to enhance TCP performance in wireless sensor networks. It is well known that TCP performs poorly over wireless links which suffer from packet losses mainly due to the bad channel. To address this problem, it is useful to incorporate network coding into TCP, as network coding can offer significant benefits in terms of throughput, reliability, and robustness. However, the encoding and decoding operations of network coding techniques will bring an additional delay that has a negative effect on applications of wireless sensor networks. In this paper, we propose an adaptive network coding (ANC) scheme which contains two major aspects: the adjustment of the redundancy factor R and the adjustment of the coding window size CW. We dynamically adjust these two parameters depending on the measured packet loss rate, so that the proposed ANC can effectively mask packet losses and reduce the decoding delay of network coding. The performance of our scheme is evaluated by simulations using NS-2 simulator. Compared to other schemes, the ANC not only achieves a good throughput but also has the lowest average delay and the lowest maximum delay in all experimental environments.References
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