Title :
An empirical study of the congestion response of RealPlayer, Windows MediaPlayer and Quicktime
Author :
Hessler, Sven ; Welzl, Michael
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Comput. Sci., Innsbruck Univ., Austria
Abstract :
Properly reacting to congestion is known to be a requirement for maintaining the stability of the Internet; in addition, UDP based applications should do so for their own sake if they are delay- or loss-sensitive. We measured the responsiveness of the three popular streaming media applications RealPlayer, Windows MediaPIayer and Quicktime with a varying amount of cross traffic and present a comparison of the results.
Keywords :
Internet; stability; telecommunication traffic; transport protocols; video streaming; Internet stability; Quicktime; RealPlayer; UDP; Windows MediaPlayer; congestion response; streaming media applications; Computer science; Delay; Internet; Kernel; Linux; Stability; Streaming media; Testing; Throughput; Traffic control;
Conference_Titel :
Computers and Communications, 2005. ISCC 2005. Proceedings. 10th IEEE Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2373-0
DOI :
10.1109/ISCC.2005.25
