| Title | TCP-aware Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks via Utility Maximisation |
| Authors | Toktam Mahmoodi, Vasilis Friderikos, Hamid Aghvami |
| Journal/Conference name | WWRF 22nd |
| Date of Publication | May 2009 |
| Work Area | Delivery Efficiency |
| Abstract | Motivated by the fact that a plethora of different applications, ranging from streaming video to file transferring, are using TCP we propose a set of utility functions that capture these application and optimise the transmission of TCP over wireless via a utility maximisation framework. We show that defining such a set of utility functions in the design of the wireless resource allocation problem can significantly benefit the overall efficiency metrics such as the end-to-end throughput and fairness among end-to-end flows . We quantify the achieved gains via numerical investigations by detailing a resource allocation problem based on the proposed framework. |