Transmission control protocol proxy in long term evolution radio access network

• US 10,069,602 B2
• Filed: 03/25/2014
• Issued: 09/04/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 03/25/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Altiostar Networks, Inc. (Rakuten Group, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Altiostar Networks, Inc. (Rakuten Group, Inc.)
• Inventors: Chowdhury, Kuntal, Dahod, Ashraf M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Crutchfield, Christopher
• Assistant Examiner(s): Pham, Tito
• Application Number:
  US14/225,022
• Publication Number:
  US 20140286239A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,624 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1812 Hybrid protocols; Hybrid automatic repeat request [HARQ]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1854 Scheduling and prioritising arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/188 Time-out mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1887 Scheduling and prioritising arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/193 at the transport layer, e.g. TCP related
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/40 using split connections
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/16 Implementation or adaptation of Internet protocol [IP], of transmission control protocol [TCP] or of user datagram protocol [UDP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/163 In-band adaptation of TCP data exchange; In-band control procedures
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/0273 adapting protocols for flow control or congestion control to wireless environment, e.g. adapting transmission control protocol [TCP] wireless network protocols or protocol adaptations to wireless operation, e.g. wireless application protocol H04W80/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 80/06 Transport layer protocols, e.g. TCP [Transport Control Protocol] over wireless transmission control protocol/Internet protocol [TCP/IP] or user datagram protocol [UDP] H04L69/16

Abstract

A system, a method, a device, and a computer program product for transmission of data packets between a user device and a server. A transmission control protocol proxy component for establishing a communication link between the user device and the server in accordance with a transmission control protocol for transmission of a data packet between the user device and the server is provided. The data packet is transmitted utilizing the transmission control protocol.

Claims

1. A device for transmission of data packets between a user device and a server, the device comprising:

at least one memory; and

at least one processor operatively coupled to the memory, the at least one processor being configured to;

provide a transmission control protocol (TCP) proxy component for establishing a communication link between the user device and the server in accordance with a transmission control protocol for transmission of a data packet between the user device and the server, wherein the transmission control protocol proxy component

establishes a first TCP proxy communication link with the user device on behalf of the server;

establishes a second TCP proxy communication link with the server on behalf of the user device; and

initiates a congestion avoidance protocol based on the established first and second TCP proxy communication links and eliminates a slow start phase of transmission control protocol;

transmit the data packet to the user device utilizing the transmission control protocol and, at the same time, asynchronously transmit an acknowledgement indicative of a receipt of the data packet by the user device to the server, wherein transmission of an acknowledgement of a receipt of the data packet by the user device is configured to be suppressed at the user device; and

prevent re-transmission of the data packet from the server to the user device upon the server failing to receive an acknowledgement from the user device within a predetermined period of time.

2. The device according to claim 1, further comprising an evolved node (eNodeB) base station, the eNodeB base station comprising the at least one processor and the at least one memory.

3. The device according to claim 1, wherein at least one processor being configured to send to the server the acknowledgement indicating receipt of the data packet by the user device.

4. The device according to claim 1, wherein at least one processor being configured to prevent transmission of multiple acknowledgements from the user device indicating receipt of the data packet by the user device.

5. The device according to claim 1, wherein at least one processor being configured to send to the server an acknowledgement indicating a receipt of the data packet by the user device upon receiving a confirmation that the data packet was received by the user device, the confirmation being generated by at least one of the media access control (MAC) layer of the user device and a radio link control (RLC) layer of the user device.

6. The device according to claim 1, wherein the transmission control protocol proxy component includes at least one transmission control protocol optimization component configured to perform optimization of at least one transmission control protocol parameter.

7. The device according to claim 6, wherein

the user device includes a power source configured to power the user device for transmission and receiving of data from the base station;

and

the optimization of the at least one transmission control protocol parameter is configured to reduce consumption of power in the power source of the user device.

8. The device according to claim 6, wherein the optimization of at least one transmission control protocol parameter is configured to reduce consumption of physical uplink shared channel (“

PUSCH”

) resources associated with a communications link between the user device and a base station comprising the at least one processor and the at least one memory.

9. The device according to claim 6, wherein the optimization of at least one transmission control protocol parameter is configured to reduce interference of an uplink communications link between the user device and a base station comprising the at least one processor and the at least one memory.

10. A computer-implemented method for transmission of data packets between a user device and a server, the method comprising:

providing a transmission control protocol (TCP) proxy component for establishing a communication link between the user device and the server in accordance with a transmission control protocol for transmission of a data packet between the user device and the server, wherein the transmission control protocol proxy component

establishes a first TCP proxy communication link with the user device on behalf of the server;

establishes a second TCP proxy communication link with the server on behalf of the user device; and

initiates a congestion avoidance protocol based on the established first and second TCP proxy communication links and eliminates a slow start phase of transmission control protocol;

transmitting the data packet to the user device utilizing the transmission control protocol and, at the same time, asynchronously transmit an acknowledgement indicative of a receipt of the data packet by the user device to the server, wherein transmission of an acknowledgement of a receipt of the data packet by the user device is configured to be suppressed at the user device; and

preventing re-transmission of the data packet from the server to the user device upon the server failing to receive an acknowledgement from the user device within a predetermined period of time;

wherein at least one of the providing, the transmitting, and the preventing is performed by at least one processor of at least one computing system.

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein an evolved node (eNodeB) base station performs at least one of the providing and the transmitting, the eNodeB base station comprising at least one processor and at least one memory.

12. The method according to claim 10, further comprising

sending to the server the acknowledgement indicating receipt of the data packet by the user device.

13. The method according to claim 10, further comprising

preventing transmission of multiple acknowledgements from the user device indicating receipt of the data packet by the user device.

14. The method according to claim 10, further comprising

sending to the server an acknowledgement indicating a receipt of the data packet by the user device upon receiving a confirmation that the data packet was received by the user device, the confirmation being generated by at least one of the media access control (MAC) layer of the user device and a radio link control (RLC) layer of the user device.

15. The method according to claim 10, wherein the transmission control protocol proxy component includes at least one transmission control protocol optimization component configured to perform optimization of at least one transmission control protocol parameter.

16. The method according to claim 15, wherein

the user device includes a power source configured to power the user device for transmission and receiving of data from the base station;

and

the optimization of the at least one transmission control protocol parameter is configured to reduce consumption of power in the power source of the user device.

17. The method according to claim 15, wherein the optimization of the at least one transmission control protocol parameter is configured to reduce consumption of physical uplink shared channel (“

PUSCH”

) resources associated with a communications link between the user device and a base station comprising at least one processor and at least one memory.

18. The method according to claim 15, wherein the optimization of the at least one transmission control protocol parameter is configured to reduce interference of an uplink communications link between the user device and a base station comprising at least one processor and at least one memory.

19. A computer program product, for transmission of data packets between a user device and a server, comprising a non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by at least one programmable processor, cause the at least one programmable processor to perform operations comprising:

providing a transmission control protocol (TCP) proxy component for establishing a communication link between the user device and the server in accordance with a transmission control protocol for transmission of a data packet between the user device and the server, wherein the transmission protocol control proxy component

establishes a first TCP proxy communication link with the user device on behalf of the server;

establishes a second TCP proxy communication link with the server on behalf of the user device; and

initiates a congestion avoidance protocol based on the established first and second TCP proxy communication links and eliminates a slow start phase of transmission control protocol;

transmitting the data packet to the user device utilizing the transmission control protocol and, at the same time, asynchronously transmit an acknowledgement indicative of a receipt of the data packet by the user device to the server, wherein transmission of an acknowledgement of a receipt of the data packet by the user device is configured to be suppressed at the user device; and

preventing re-transmission of the data packet from the server to the user device upon the server failing to receive an acknowledgement from the user device within a predetermined period of time.

20. The computer program product according to claim 19, wherein an evolved node (eNodeB) base station performs at least one of the providing and the transmitting, the eNodeB base station comprising at least one processor and at least one memory.

21. The computer program product according to claim 19, wherein the operation further comprise

sending to the server the acknowledgement indicating receipt of the data packet by the user device.

22. The computer program product according to claim 19, wherein the operation further comprise

preventing transmission of multiple acknowledgements from the user device indicating receipt of the data packet by the user device.

23. The computer program product according to claim 19, wherein the operation further comprise

sending to the server an acknowledgement indicating a receipt of the data packet by the user device upon receiving a confirmation that the data packet was received by the user device, the confirmation being generated by at least one of the media access control (MAC) layer of the user device and a radio link control (RLC) layer of the user device.

24. The computer program product according to claim 19, wherein the transmission control protocol proxy component includes at least one transmission control protocol optimization component configured to perform optimization of at least one transmission control protocol parameter.

25. The computer program product according to claim 24, wherein

the user device includes a power source configured to power the user device for transmission and receiving of data from the base station;

and

the optimization of the at least one transmission control protocol parameter is configured to reduce consumption of power in the power source of the user device.

26. The computer program product according to claim 24, wherein the optimization of the at least one transmission control protocol parameter is configured to reduce consumption of physical uplink shared channel (“

PUSCH”

) resources associated with a communications link between the user device and a base station comprising at least one processor and at least one memory.

27. The computer program product according to claim 24, wherein the optimization of the at least one transmission control protocol parameter is configured to reduce interference of an uplink communications link between the user device and a base station comprising at least one processor and at least one memory.