TCP-friendly layered multicast protocol for multimedia streaming

Author

Ghazali, Osman ; Hassan, Suhaidi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. Utara Malaysia, Sintok

fYear

2008

fDate

1-3 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Layered multicast protocol (LMP) is designed to support simultaneous and real-time multimedia content distribution to large number of disparate receivers across the heterogeneous Internet. However, the current layered multicast protocols (LMPs) use the techniques that do not correctly model TCP behaviour, which results in the protocols can´t fairly compete with TCP. TCP-friendly layered multicast protocol (TfLMP) is designed to solve the problems with the current LMPs. It use the techniques that closely model TCP behaviour, i.e. scalable RTT estimation and 2-step loss event rate filtering. The techniques enable TfLMP to compete with TCP and get fair amount of bandwidth share. TfLMP is evaluated using ns2 simulation and the results are compared with the other LMPs.

Keywords

Internet; bandwidth allocation; media streaming; multicast protocols; telecommunication congestion control; transport protocols; Internet; LMP; TCP-friendly layered multicast protocol; bandwidth sharing; congestion control mechanism; multimedia streaming; ns2 simulation; scalable RTT estimation; two-step loss event rate filtering; Bandwidth; Digital multimedia broadcasting; Filtering; Multicast protocols; Probes; Stability; Streaming media; Throughput; Transport protocols; Web and internet services; Congestion Control; Layered Multicast; Packet-pair Probe; TCP-equation Model; Transport Protocol;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronic Design, 2008. ICED 2008. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Penang

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2315-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2315-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICED.2008.4786716

Filename

4786716