Voice-TFCC: A TCP-friendly congestion control scheme for VoIP flows

Author

Trad, Abdelbasset ; Afifi, Hossam

Author_Institution

PRINCE Comput. Sci. Res. Unit, INFCOM Sousse

fYear

2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Typically, VoIP traffic is deployed as best-effort traffic over Internet links. This voice traffic lacks effective and scalable end-to-end congestion control. We propose a new VoIP congestion control scheme called Voice-TFCC (voice TCP-friendly congestion control), that tries to keep the transmission protocol overhead to a minimum while maintaining a TCP-friendly throughput. Voice-TFCC adjusts packet and codec rate in order to reduce the traffic load non Internet routers and the overall header bandwidth used by VoIP. We used analytical results to show the bandwidth efficiency obtained through our proposal. Voice-TFCC scheme is scalable because no changes are needed at core routers and minimal control messages are used and thus can be easily implemented and deployed in todaypsilas Internet.

Keywords

Internet telephony; bandwidth allocation; telecommunication congestion control; telecommunication network routing; telecommunication traffic; transport protocols; Internet link; VoIP traffic flow; bandwidth efficiency; non Internet router; scalable end-to-end congestion control; transmission protocol; voice TCP-friendly congestion control; Bandwidth; Codecs; Communication system traffic control; Internet; Payloads; Proposals; Telecommunication congestion control; Telecommunication control; Traffic control; Transport protocols;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 2008. PIMRC 2008. IEEE 19th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Cannes

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2643-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2644-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PIMRC.2008.4699871

Filename

4699871