Multimedia-Aware Congestion Control for Video Streaming over the Internet

Author

Yan, T.K. ; Dommel, H.P.

Author_Institution

Santa Clara Univ., Santa Clara

fYear

2007

fDate

1-5 July 2007

Firstpage

6

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This paper presents congestion control protocols designed for use in video applications over the Internet. Such protocols should take video traffic characteristics into account while behaving in a friendly manner with respect to competing flows in the Internet. Building on the TEAR protocol, additional video traffic characteristics are taken into account by considering flows with variable packet sizes, a characteristic of video traffic due to the packetization and error-control schemes of video coding systems. Our experiments show our proposed protocols take more video traffic characteristics into account than TEAR while maintaining TEAR´s TCP-friendliness.

Keywords

Internet; error correction codes; telecommunication congestion control; telecommunication traffic; transport protocols; video coding; video streaming; Internet; TCP; error control scheme; multimedia-aware congestion control protocol; video coding; video streaming; video traffic; Application software; Communication system traffic control; Internet; Protocols; Quality of service; Streaming media; Taxonomy; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control; Videoconference;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Digital Telecommunications, 2007. ICDT '07. Second International Conference on

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2910-0

Electronic_ISBN

0-7695-2910-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDT.2007.25

Filename

4270572