Transmission control protocol (TCP) control over radio communications

A mobile User Equipment (UE) that uses Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) over different radios, the mobile UE comprising:

• circuitry configured to qualify ones of the radios having adequate signal strength at a current location;
• the circuitry configured to retrieve TCP retransmission data from memory for the qualified radios that indicates TCP retransmission rates for the qualified radios at past locations;
• the circuitry configured to calculate distances between the current location and the past locations and estimate TCP retransmission rates at the current location for the qualified radios based on the TCP retransmission rates for the qualified radios at the past locations and the distances between the past locations and the current location;
• the circuitry configured to compare the TCP retransmission rate estimates for the qualified radios to a rate threshold and identify ones of the qualified radios having TCP retransmission rate estimates below the rate threshold;
• the circuitry configured to select one of the identified radios having a lowest power usage;
• the circuitry configured to exchange TCP packets with the selected radio and generate additional TCP retransmission data;
• the circuitry configured to update the TCP retransmission data in the memory with the additional TCP retransmission data for the selected radio in association with the current location;
• and
• the selected radio configured to wirelessly exchange the TCP packets with a wireless node.