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EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking

Table 1 Cross-layer approaches.

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

Proposed solution

Layers involved

Sender

Intermediate

Receiver

Route failure

Shared medium

Transmission losses

Unfairness

Congestion

Normal

SACK

DACK

Control messages

Routing protocol

Parameters

Proposed in

Simulation environment

TCP-feedback

T & N

Y

Y

-

Y

-

-

-

Y

Y

-

-

RFN RRN

-

-

1998

Mobile

TCP-BUS

T & N

Y

Y

-

Y

-

-

-

Y

Y

-

-

ERDN ERSN

ABR

-

2000

Mobile

ATCP

T & N

Y

Y

-

Y

-

Y

-

Y

Y

-

-

ICM, ECN

-

-

2001

Mobile

ENIC

T, N & MAC

Y

Y

Y

Y

-

-

-

-

-

Y

Y

EREN ERRN

AODV

-

2001

Mobile

Preemptive routing

N & P

Y

Y

-

Y

-

-

-

-

Y

-

-

Ping Pong

DSR AODV

Signal strength

2001

Mobile

ELFN

T & N

Y

Y

-

Y

-

-

-

Y

Y

-

-

ELFN

DSR

-

2002

Mobile

TCP/RCWE

T & N

Y

Y

-

Y

-

Y

-

Y

Y

-

-

ELFN

DSR

RTT

2002

Mobile

ATRA

N & MAC

Y

Y

-

Y

-

-

-

-

Y

-

-

ELFN

DSR

Signal Strength

2004

Mobile

ECIA

T & N

Y

Y

-

Y

-

-

-

Y

Y

-

-

EPLN BEAD

DSR

-

2004

Mobile

Signal strength based link manage

N, P

Y

Y

-

Y

-

-

-

-

Y

-

-

-

AODV

Signal Strength

2004

Mobile

C3TCP

T & MAC

Y

Y

Y

-

-

-

-

Y

-

Y

Y

-

-

Available Bandwidth & Delay

2006

Static

WCCP

T & MAC

Y

Y

Y

-

Y

-

Y

Y

Y

-

-

-

AODV

Channel Usage

2007

Static

TCTC

T, MAC

Y

Y

Y

-

Y

-

-

-

Y

-

-

-

DSR

Short-term Throughput & Transmission Delay

2008

Static

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