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High quality and ubiquitous Internet access is a key feature of today’s mobile systems such as LTE. While LTE can provide competitive peak data rates and a relatively low latency, there is still room for solutions improving end-users’ Quality-of-Experience by optimizing services running over the LTE infrastructure. Being the most widespread transport protocol, TCP is in the main focus of such research projects. A widely recommended solution for TCP performance improvement is the split connection TCP proxy that divides the end-to-end TCP connection into two independent connections, that results increased throughput and faster error recovery. This paper investigates the performance of a split connection TCP proxy deployed in LTE’s SAE-GW. Numerical results show significant performance improvement of file downloading, web browsing and video steaming applications in case of not congested transport networks.
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Farkas, V., Héder, B., Nováczki, S. (2012). A Split Connection TCP Proxy in LTE Networks. In: Szabó, R., Vidács, A. (eds) Information and Communication Technologies. EUNICE 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7479. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32808-4_24
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