Title :
TCP Vegas Performance with Streaming Media
Author :
Boyden, Sean ; Mahanti, Anirban ; Williamson, Carey
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Calgary Univ., Alta.
Abstract :
In this paper we study the use of TCP Vegas as a transport protocol for streaming media. We also consider TCP NewReno as a transport protocol for streaming media. We find that: 1) TCP is able to transport streaming media with good performance in a wide variety of scenarios; 2) TCP Vegas performs better than TCP NewReno in many cases; and 3) for viable media streams, both TCP variants need to achieve mean throughputs that are at least 1.5 times the encoding rate of the media objects being carried.
Keywords :
media streaming; transport protocols; TCP NewReno; TCP Vegas performance; streaming media; transport protocol; Availability; Computer science; Decoding; Delay; Drives; Encoding; Internet; Streaming media; Throughput; Transport protocols;
Conference_Titel :
Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference, 2007. IPCCC 2007. IEEE Internationa
Conference_Location :
New Orleans, LA
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-1138-6
Electronic_ISBN :
1097-2641
DOI :
10.1109/PCCC.2007.358877
