Title :
A survey of UDP packet loss characteristics
Author :
Chin, Suk Kim ; Braun, Robin
Author_Institution :
Telecommun. Eng. Dept., Univ. of Technol., Sydney, NSW, Australia
Abstract :
Real time audio and video applications, though sensitive to packet loss and delay, do not require absolute reliability for transmission. Thus, understanding packet loss characteristics in the Internet, as well as in the MBone, can provide network researchers with an ability to design improved protocols for error control/concealment. This paper presents an analysis of real traffic measurements from the Internet/MBone, giving details of loss rates and packet loss characteristics of different receivers from different geographical regions. The analysis reveals that some receivers experience very high loss rate, of above 25%, and that a high percentage of these packet losses are burst losses of several consecutive packets.
Keywords :
Internet; error correction; multicast communication; multimedia communication; packet switching; protocols; telecommunication traffic; Internet; MBone; UDP packet loss; burst losses; error concealment; error control; loss rates; multicast networks; multimedia services; packet delay; real time audio; real time video; Bandwidth; Diffserv networks; IP networks; Internet; Multimedia communication; Protocols; Quality of service; Reliability engineering; Telecommunication network reliability; Unicast;
Conference_Titel :
Signals, Systems and Computers, 2001. Conference Record of the Thirty-Fifth Asilomar Conference on
Conference_Location :
Pacific Grove, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7147-X
DOI :
10.1109/ACSSC.2001.986905