Congestion control for Web-based multimedia playback applications

Author

Cai, Lin ; Shen, Xuemin ; Mark, Jon W.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Waterloo Univ., Ont., Canada

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

11-15 May 2003

Firstpage

562

Abstract

To guarantee network stability while supporting multimedia applications over the Internet, a new dynamically adjusted TCP-friendly additive increase and multiplicative decrease (AIMD) congestion control algorithm, DTAIMD, is proposed. By studying the competition behavior of TCP and AIMD flows, the TCP-friendly condition for the AIMD (α, β) congestion control is analytically derived. Quality of service (QoS) for multimedia playback applications is enhanced by choosing an appropriate parameter pair of (α, β). Simulation results show that the proposed DTAIMD congestion control scheme is TCP-friendly and suitable for supporting multimedia playback applications.

Keywords

Internet; multimedia communication; quality of service; telecommunication congestion control; transport protocols; Internet; TCP competition behavior; Web-based multimedia playback applications; additive increase and multiplicative decrease control algorithm; congestion control; dynamically adjusted TCP-friendly control algorithm; network stability; parameter pair; quality of service; transport control protocol; Application software; Bandwidth; Communication system control; IP networks; Internet; Multimedia systems; Stability; Streaming media; Throughput; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 2003. ICC '03. IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7802-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.2003.1204239

Filename

1204239