Mechanisms to improve the transmission control protocol performance in wireless networks
First Claim
1. A system for improving the performance of a transmission control protocol (“
- TCP”
) communication in a network, said system comprising;
a TCP server in communication with a TCP client, anda process located between the TCP server and the TCP client and adapted to create at least one second client acknowledgement from two or more first client acknowledgements flowing between the TCP server and the TCP client, and to transmit at least one second client acknowledgement into the network, and wherein said process is capable of enabling and disabling the creation of said second client acknowledgements,and wherein said process ensures a maximum delay between each of said first client acknowledgements and the transmission of said second client acknowledgements,and wherein said process is capable of dynamically modulating the number of first client acknowledgements used to create each second client acknowledgment based on one or more of the following;
(a) network type,(b) signalling,(c) network performance,(d) transmission rate, and(e) packet per second rate.
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Abstract
A system located on either side of a wireless network for reducing the amount of collisions in the wireless network comprises a TCP server in communication with a TCP client using TCP protocols that use client acknowledgements, and an acknowledgement-summarizing device adapted to summarize at least one client acknowledgement from the TCP protocols in a summarizing acknowledgement, and to transmit the summarizing acknowledgement into the wireless network. The acknowledgement-summarizing device may be replaced or combined with an acknowledgement-aggregating device located on either side of the wireless network and adapted to aggregate one or more client acknowledgements from the TCP protocols into an encoded packet and to transmit the encoded packet into the wireless network. A device located between the TCP server and the TCP client is adapted to derive one or more client acknowledgements from a single acknowledgement flowing between the TCP server and the TCP client, and to transmit all the derived client acknowledgements into the network.
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12 Claims
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1. A system for improving the performance of a transmission control protocol (“
- TCP”
) communication in a network, said system comprising;a TCP server in communication with a TCP client, and a process located between the TCP server and the TCP client and adapted to create at least one second client acknowledgement from two or more first client acknowledgements flowing between the TCP server and the TCP client, and to transmit at least one second client acknowledgement into the network, and wherein said process is capable of enabling and disabling the creation of said second client acknowledgements, and wherein said process ensures a maximum delay between each of said first client acknowledgements and the transmission of said second client acknowledgements, and wherein said process is capable of dynamically modulating the number of first client acknowledgements used to create each second client acknowledgment based on one or more of the following; (a) network type, (b) signalling, (c) network performance, (d) transmission rate, and (e) packet per second rate. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
- TCP”
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8. A method for improving a transmission control protocol (“
- TCP”
) communication in a network, said method comprising;intercepting traffic between a TCP server in communication with a TCP client, identifying client acknowledgements in said traffic, deriving at least one second client acknowledgement from two or more first client acknowledgements flowing between the TCP server and the TCP client, enabling and disabling the derivation of said at least one second client acknowledgement, and transmitting at least one second client acknowledgement via said network, and ensuring a maximum delay between each of said first client acknowledgements and the transmission of said second client acknowledgements, dynamically modulating the number of first client acknowledgements used to create each second client acknowledgment based on one or more of the following; (a) network type, (b) signalling, (c) network performance, (d) transmission rate, and (e) packet per second rate. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12)
- TCP”
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