Title :
The impact of network and protocol heterogeneity on real-time application QoS
Author :
Papadimitriou, Panagiotis ; Tsaoussidis, Vassilis ; Tsekeridou, Sofia
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Democritus Univ. of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece
Abstract :
We evaluate the impact of network, and protocol heterogeneity on real-time application performance. We focus on TCP and UDP supportive role, also in the context of network stability and fairness. We reach several conclusions on the specific impact of wireless links, MPEG traffic friendliness, and TCP version efficiency. Beyond that, we also reach an unexpected result: UDP traffic is occasionally worse than TCP traffic when the right performance metric is used.
Keywords :
quality of service; radio links; real-time systems; telecommunication traffic; transport protocols; MPEG traffic friendliness; TCP; TCP version efficiency; UDP; network stability; protocol heterogeneity; real-time application QoS; wireless links; Application software; Bandwidth; Communication system traffic control; Delay; Protocols; Quality of service; Streaming media; TCPIP; Telecommunication traffic; Web and internet services;
Conference_Titel :
Computers and Communications, 2005. ISCC 2005. Proceedings. 10th IEEE Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2373-0
DOI :
10.1109/ISCC.2005.144
