A Measurement Study of TCP Performance over 60GHz mmWave Hybrid Networks

The millimeter wave technology which provides the throughput of multi-gigabit per second is one of the key technologies for 5G/B5G communications. However, an optimal interaction between the transport layer protocols and the highly fluctuating millimeter wave networks is extremely challenging and lacks in-depth exploration in actual networks. In this paper, we examine and discuss the performance of several TCP congestion control algorithms in the real 60 GHz millimeter wave environment, and inspect the improvement of TCP performance over mmWave hybrid networks by TCP proxies in single-flow and multi-flows scenarios. Our results reveal severe adaptation problems associated with these congestion control algorithms over millimeter wave networks and the effectiveness of TCP proxies for the utilization of millimeter wave hybrid networks.