Performance Enhancement of On-Board Communication Networks Using Outage Prediction

Abstract--A research area that has become increasingly important in recent years is that of on-board mobile communication, where users on a vehicle are connected to a local network that attaches to the Internet via a mobile router and a wireless link. In this architecture, link disruptions (e.g., due to signal degradation) may have an immediate impact on a potentially large number of connections. We argue that the advance knowledge of public transport routes, and their repetitive nature, allows a certain degree of prediction of impending link disruptions, which can be used to offset their catastrophic impact. Focusing on the transmission control protocol (TCP) and its extension known as Freeze-TCP, we present a detailed analysis of the performance improvement of TCP connections in the presence of disruption prediction. In particular, we propose a Markov model of Freeze-TCP that captures both the TCP behavior and the prediction+"freezing" feature and, using simulations, show t...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2006
• Where: JSAC
• Authors: Adeel Baig, Lavy Libman, Mahbub Hassan
• Keywords: Disruption Prediction, JSAC 2006, On-board Mobile Communication, Public Transport Routes