New TCP-friendly, rate-based transport protocol for media streaming applications

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The increasing growth on the Internet for multimedia streaming poses severe challenges for the dominant transport control protocol TCP, but without a fair demand on resources such network flows threaten the stability of the Internet. A rate-based transport protocol, employing a SIMD window-based congestion mechanism, is described and comparative simulations with other protocols are provided. Rate-based SIMD exhibits clear advantages in terms of TCP-friendliness, smoothness of transmission rates and appropriate responsiveness to changing network conditions.

Inspec keywords: Internet; telecommunication congestion control; transport protocols; multimedia communication

Other keywords: square-increase-multiplicative-decrease window-based congestion mechanism; transport control protocol; network condition; TCP-friendly rate; Internet; multimedia streaming application

Subjects: Protocols; Computer communications; Protocols; Other computer networks; Multimedia communications; Multimedia

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