Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Acknowledgement (ACK) Packet Suppression

A communication system having a hardware processor and a memory coupled to the hardware processor, the memory configured to store program instructions executable by the hardware processor to cause the communication system to:

• receive a transport packet at a transport layer;
• de-encapsulate, at the transport layer, the transport packet to identify a security packet;
• communicate, by the transport layer, the security packet to a security layer;
• in response to receiving;
• the security packet, communicate an acknowledgement signal to the transport layer from the security layer;
• in response to receiving the acknowledgement signal, suppress an acknowledgement at the transport layer in order to preserve energy in a lower power mode;
• add an acknowledgment indication to a next data packet to he sent after the suppress action;
• and
• send the next data packet.

A non-transitory electronic storage medium having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution by a hardware processor within a communication system, cause the communication system to:

• receive a transport packet at a transport layer;
• de-encapsulate the transport packet to identify a security packet;
• communicate, by the transport layer, the security packet to a security layer;
• in response to receiving the security packet, communicate an acknowledgement signal to the transport layer from the security layer;
• in response to receiving the acknowledgement signal, suppress an acknowledgement packet at the transport layer in order to preserve energy in a lower power mode;
• add an acknowledgment indication to a next data packet to be sent after the suppress action;
• and
• send the next data packet.