Re: [iccrg] TCP behavior across WiFi pointers ?

Marie-Jose Montpetit <marie@mjmontpetit.com> Wed, 08 November 2017 18:37 UTC

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Subject: Re: [iccrg] TCP behavior across WiFi pointers ?
From: Marie-Jose Montpetit <marie@mjmontpetit.com>
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Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2017 13:37:37 -0500
Cc: Toerless Eckert <tte+ietf@cs.fau.de>, iccrg IRTF list <iccrg@irtf.org>, tsv-area@ietf.org, nwcrg@irtf.org
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I also copy the nwcrg list where a ton of people have looked at TCP over wifi.

mjm
> On Nov 8, 2017, at 1:32 PM, Michael Welzl <michawe@ifi.uio.no> wrote:
> 
> I would think that 1) there are probably pointers, and 2) the people who have them should be on the ICCRG list, which I’m cc’ing.
> 
> I suggest for this to be the last email that includes tsvarea so that the thread entirely moves to ICCRG.
> 
> 
>> On Nov 8, 2017, at 6:42 PM, Toerless Eckert <tte+ietf@cs.fau.de> wrote:
>> 
>> Any pointers to work analyzing the differences in behavior when TCP is run
>> across WiFi as opposed to wired ? Especially with WiFi in the home ?
>> 
>> I am primarily thinking that there could be a higher demand for
>> TCP (end-to-end) retransmissions when using WiFi because the L2/WiFi
>> local retransmissions are insufficient. And if so, what the characteristics
>> of those end-to-end retransmissions is (would assume they would be larger
>> than N msec, where N is whatever the L2/wifi protection window is, which
>> unfortunately i don't know).
>> 
>> Asking because we've got the poor "must-sit-in-back-of-the-bus" traffic
>> called IP multicast that is not protected by L2/wifi retransmissions at
>> all and now we're wondering if carrying it over TCP as a workaround
>> could help, and therefore trying to educate myself on specific known
>> issue left when running traffic over TCP over WiFi.
>> 
>> If any other TSV or other WG mailing list might be a better place to
>> ask. pls. let me know.
>> 
>> Thank!
>>   Toerless
>> 
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