An end-to-end TCP-friendly streaming protocol for multimedia over wireless Internet

With the convergence of wired line Internet and mobile wireless networks, it´s important to study its impacts on continuous media delivery and media streaming protocols. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end (wireless) multimedia streaming TCP-friendly protocol for media delivery over wireless Internet (WMSTFP). WMSTFP can effectively differentiate erroneous packet losses from congestive losses and filter out the abnormal round-trip-time values due to the highly varying wireless environment. Analytical and simulation results show that WMSTFP can achieve higher throughput in wireless Internet and can perform rate adjustment in a smooth and TCP-friendly manner.