Increasing throughput density of TCP traffic on a hybrid data network having both wired and wireless connections by modifying TCP layer behavior over the wireless connection while maintaining TCP protocol

A non-transitory computer-readable medium to, when executed by a processor, perform a computer-implemented method in an access point for increasing throughput density of TCP traffic on a hybrid network having both wired and wireless connections, by modifying TCP layer behavior over the wireless connection while maintaining TCP protocol, the method comprising:

• receiving, at a WLAN driver of the access point, network packets transmitted from a sender device over the data communication network to a wireless station;
• examining, with a processor of the TCP access point, network traffic using DPI(deep packet inspection);
• detecting a TCP session from the DPI to examine each network packet;
• responsive to detecting the TCP session, diverting network packets to a TCP proxy pipeline, comprising:
• emulating a wireless receiver device by providing an ACK packet to a sender device in order to close a TCP session on the sender device by responding to a TCP handshake with the sender device;
• and
• emulating the sender device to a wireless station over wireless network connection by initiating a TCP handshake with a wireless station including receiving an ACK packet from the wireless station and suppressing the ACK packet from an initial destination associated with the sender device;
• emulating the sender device to a wireless station over wireless network connection by initiating a TCP handshake with a wireless station including receiving an ACK packet from the wireless station and suppressing the ACK packet from an initial destination associated with the sender device;
• after receiver device emulation, aggregating multiple network packets at the WLAN driver into an A-MPDU (MAC protocol data unit) network packet;
• and
• transmitting, from the WLAN driver, the network packets for transmission to the wireless station over the wireless network of the data communication network.

An access point, on a data communication network, for increasing throughput density of TCP traffic on a hybrid network having both wired and wireless connections, by modifying TCP layer behavior over the wireless connection while maintaining TCP protocol, the access point comprising:

• a processor;
• a network interface, communicatively coupled to the processor and the data communication network;
• and
• a memory, storing:
• a WLAN driver to receive network packets transmitted from a sender device over the data communication network to a wireless station,
• wherein the processor to examine network traffic using DPI (deep packet inspection), to detect a TCP session from the DPI to examine each network packet, and responsive to detecting the TCP session, to divert network packets to a TCP proxy pipeline, comprising:
• emulating a wireless receiver device by providing an ACK packet to a sender device in order to close a TCP session on the sender device by responding to a TCP handshake with the sender device;
• emulating the sender device to a wireless station over wireless network connection by initiating a TCP handshake with a wireless station including receiving an ACK packet from the wireless station and suppressing the ACK packet from an initial destination associated with the sender device;
• after receiver device emulation, aggregating multiple network packets at the WLAN driver into an A-MPDU (MAC protocol data unit) network packet;
• and
• transmitting, from the WLAN driver, the network packets for transmission to the wireless station over the wireless network of the data communication network.