A Concurrent Multi-path Transfer Mechanism Used in Ad Hoc Networks

Many works have examined the problemof receive buffer blocking which is brought by traditionalconcurrent multi-path transfer protocol. A new concurrentMulti-path transport mechanism named Wireless concurrent multi-path transfer SCTP protocol (WCMT-SCTP) isproposed in this paper. WCMT-SCTP is designed for solving the receive buffer blocking problem. It can bind thecertain data streams to certain paths and use multiple active paths to transfer data simultaneously. An analysis isgiven to demonstrate the performance of WCMT-SCTP,and simulations are conducted to show the performanceimprovement of WCMT-SCTP in terms of throughput andthe independence of data streams. It is also shown thatanalysis results are fitting well with the simulation results.