A hybrid TCP-friendly rate control for multimedia streaming

Author

Fujikawa, Tomoki ; Takishima, Yosuke ; Ujikawa, Hiroyuki ; Ogura, Kazumine ; Katto, Jiro ; Izumikawa, Haruki

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Waseda Univ., Tokyo, Japan

fYear

2010

fDate

13-14 Dec. 2010

Firstpage

134

Lastpage

141

Abstract

This paper presents a hybrid congestion control algorithm supporting throughput efficiency, TCP friendliness and RTT fairness, in order to provide highly smart multimedia streaming over the Internet. Recent studies on TCP and TFRC are evolving to achieve better throughput efficiency and RTT fairness. Examples are Hybrid TCP congestion control, VTP and TCP-Libra, where the former two improve throughput efficiency of TCP and TFRC, respectively, and the last one improves RTT fairness of TCP. This paper integrates these ideas and propose a new congestion control algorithm, called Hybrid TFRC, for multimedia streaming. Experiments are carried out and effectiveness of our proposal is verified.

Keywords

Internet; media streaming; telecommunication congestion control; transport protocols; Hybrid TFRC; Internet; RTT fairness; TCP friendliness; TCP-Libra; VTP; hybrid TCP congestion control; hybrid TCP-friendly rate control; hybrid congestion control algorithm; multimedia streaming; throughput efficiency; Delay; Multimedia communication; Propagation delay; Proposals; Receivers; Streaming media; Throughput; Congestion Control; Multimedia Streaming; RTT Fairness; TCP Friendliness; Throughput Efficiency;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Packet Video Workshop (PV), 2010 18th International

Conference_Location

Hong Kong

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9522-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-9520-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PV.2010.5706830

Filename

5706830