A survey of performance enhancement of transmission control protocol (TCP) in wireless ad hoc networks

EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking

Table 2 Layered approaches

Proposed solution	Layer Involved	Sender	Intermediate	Receiver	Route Failure	Shared Medium	Transmission Losses	Unfairness	Congestion	Normal	SACK	DACK	Routing Protocol	Parameters	ACK After	Proposed in	Simulation environment
Fixed RTO	T	Y	-	-	Y	-	-	-	Y	Y	Y	Y	DSR, AODV, ADV	RTO	-	2001	Mobile
ADTCP	T	Y	-	Y	Y	-	Y	-	Y	Y	-	-	DSR	Inter-packet delay & short-term throughput	-	2002	Mobile
TCP-DOOR	T	Y	-	Y	Y	-	-	-	Y		Y	-	DSR	Out of order packet	-	2002	Mobile
Backup path routing	N	Y	-	-	Y		-	-	-	Y	-	-	SMR	-	-	2003	Mobile
COPAS	N	Y	Y	Y		Y	-	-	-	Y	-	-	DSR	Weighted. Ave Backoff	-	2003	Static
LRED	Link Layer	Y	Y	Y	-	Y	-	Y	-	Y	-	-	Manual Routing	Number of Try for medium access	-	2003	Static & Mobile
TCP-Dynamic Delay ACK	T	-	-	Y	-	Y	-	-	-	-	-	Y	AODV	-	One ACK/1-4 packets	2003	Static
OPET	MAC	Y	Y	Y	-	Y	-	-	Y	Y	-	-	Manual Routing	-	-	2004	Static
QE & FF	MAC	-	-	-	-	Y	-	-	-	Y	-	-	AODV, DSR	-	-	2004	Static & mobile
TCP-ADA	T	-	-	Y	-	Y	-	-	-	-	-	Y	DSR	-	One ACK/Cwnd	2004	Static
TCP-DAA	T	Y	-	Y	-	Y	-	-	-	-	-	Y	-	-	2-4 Packets	2005	Static
FeW	T	Y	-	-	-	Y	-	-	Y	Y	-	-	DSR	-	-	2005	Static
NRED	Link Layer	Y	Y	Y	-	-	-	Y		Y	-	-	AODV	Queue length	-	2005	Static & mobile
TCP-AP	T	Y	Y	Y		Y				Y			AODV	-	AODV	2005	Static
TCP-DCA	T	-	-	Y	-	Y	-	-	-	-	-	Y	AODV, DSR and GPRS	-	Delay window based on hop	2008	Static
APS-FeW	T	Y	-	-	-	-	-	-	Y	Y	-	-	DSR	cwnd, packet size	-	2009	Static & mobile

Note: The'-'mark is used if the approach does not involve a particular aspect, otherwise 'Y' is used except in case of routing where the '-' mark means the approach does not clearly specify the underlying routing protocol used.