A Rate Control Protocol for High Speed Streaming Video

Author

Yang Xiaogang ; Shan Baosong ; Yang Yaping

Author_Institution

State key Lab. of software Dev. env., Beihang Univ., Beijing

fYear

2008

Firstpage

7

Lastpage

12

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a rate control for high speed streaming video, which is based on scalable TCP and TEAR. Scalable TCP offers an effective and robust mechanism for bulk data transmitting in high bandwidth-delay network. However it has a big rate oscillation when transmitting video data. TEAR is a rate control protocol that emulates TCP at receivers, which is suitable for streaming video, and however it is TCP friendly and keeps the same low utilization as TCP in high-speed network environment. RDSTCP adopts TEAR idea, emulates scalable TCP at receiver. RDSTCP shifts most functions of scalable TCP to the receiver, and reduces the rate oscillation as well as keeping high link utilization. In the end, we emulate and evaluate RDSTCP performance by using NS2.

Keywords

telecommunication congestion control; transport protocols; video streaming; congestion control protocol; high speed bandwidth-delay network; high speed video streaming; rate control protocol; scalable TCP emulation at receiver; video data transmission; Bandwidth; Electrical engineering; High-speed networks; Information science; Internet; Programming; Protocols; State estimation; Streaming media; Videoconference;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer and Information Science, 2008. ICIS 08. Seventh IEEE/ACIS International Conference on

Conference_Location

Portland, OR

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3131-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIS.2008.61

Filename

4529791