Wireless and mobile network is becoming more and more popular in these years. Internet is extending from wireline network to mobile network. TCP protocol is the most widely transport protocol used in Internet. TCP was designed on the basis of wireline network and work well on it. But the features of mobile network degrade the performance of original TCP protocol. The reason is analyzed in detail in this paper. According to these reasons, a new scheme, EHN-HP is proposed. EHN-HP modifies TCP protocol and takes a new phase,Handoff Process, which is used to process the events in the mobile handoff specially. The simulation result indicates that EHN-HP mechanism can improve the TCP performance during the mobile handoff.
mobile networkmobile handovertransport control protocol (TCP)