Aggregating Without Bloating: Hard Times for TCP on Wi-Fi

A number of Linux kernel modules have been added to the TCP/IP stack since the buffer bloat phenomena was defined, although there aren’t many experimental research on their impacts. when used with WLAN technology, specifically IEEE 802.11n and IEEE 802.11ac. TCP Small Queues (TSQ) is a crucial method that limits how many packets a TCP socket can queue in the stack. It does this by waiting for the physical layer to transfer the packets before enqueuing additional data. TCP Pacing (TP), a second important TCP mechanism, controls the speed at which the socket enqueues packets in the stack, regulating the formation of bursts of data. These methods impair throughput and have an impact on WLAN networks’ frame aggregation logic. trade-off between latency and all TCP variations. The performance of several TCP congestion control versions on wireless networks in the presence of various TSQ and TP policies is investigated experimentally in this research, which also models their interaction.