The millimeter-wave (mmWave) technology suffers from several issues such as blockage by solid material and absorption by oxygen or rain. These issues cause degradation in TCP performance, where many packets are dropped. Retransmission for the packet drops will be required to receive the whole segments of data. This paper focuses on the side effects of congestion and link errors over TCP performance in the mmWave environment. This study proposes two mechanisms to enhance the conventional TCP Congestion Control Algorithm (CCA) through Additive Increase/Multiplicative Decrease (AIMD) approach. Firstly, the proposed method exploits the Additive Increase (AI) phase to stay in a stable state as long as possible. Secondly, the proposed method uses a Multiplicative Decrease (MD) phase to prevent the congestion window (cwnd) to be reduced. The proposed TCP enhancement will be compared with the default TCP-CCA. The evaluation of the proposed TCP enhancement is conducted in ns-3. The simulation results confirm that the proposed method refines cwnd up to 14% of in comparison with default TCP.

Topics
Radio spectrum, Control theory
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