Loss based congestion control module for health centers deployed by using advanced IoT based SDN communication networks

Abstract

Many healthcare centers are deploying advanced Internet of Things (IoT) based on Software-Defined Networks (SDNs). Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) was developed to control the data transmission in wide range of networks and provides reliable communication by using many caching and congestion control schemes. TCP is predestined to always increase and decrease its congestion window size to make changes in traffic. Nowadays, about 50% IoT based SDN traffic is controlled by TCP CUBIC, which is the default congestion control scheme in Linux operating system. The aim of this research is to develop a new content-caching based congestion control scheme for advanced IoT enabled SDN networks to achieve better performance in healthcare infrastructure network environments. In this research, Congestion Control Module for Loss Event (CCM-LE) is proposed to enhance the performance of TCP CUBIC in advanced IoT based on SDN. Network Simulator 2 (NS-2) is used to simulate the experiments of CCM-LE and state-of-the-art schemes. Results show that the performance of CCM-LE outperforms by 19% as compared to state-of-the-art schemes.