Implementation and evaluation of a TCP header compression for 6LoWPAN

Ahmed Ayadi (1) , Patrick Maillé (1) , David Ros Sanchez (1) , Laurent Toutain (1) , Tiancong Zheng (1)

1 RSM - Département Réseaux, Sécurité et Multimédia

This paper presents an experimental study of TCPHC, a novel algorithm for compressing the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) header to reduce its overhead in IPv6-enabled Low-power and Lossy Networks (6LoWPANs). Results show that TCPHC outperforms TCP both in low-loss and high-loss networks. In fact, TCPHC can reduce the TCP header to 6 bytes in more than 95% of the cases. Moreover, experimental results show that our TCP header compression algorithm reduces the energy consumption by up to 15%.

Mots clés: Low-power and Lossy Networks; 6LoWPAN; TCP; Energy efficiency; Header compression

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]

Ahmed Ayadi, Patrick Maillé, David Ros Sanchez, Laurent Toutain, Tiancong Zheng. Implementation and evaluation of a TCP header compression for 6LoWPAN. IEEE IWCMC: 7th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, Jul 2011, Istanbul, Turkey. pp.1359 - 1364, ⟨10.1109/IWCMC.2011.5982736⟩. ⟨hal-02301807⟩