A streaming media congestion control mechanism based on UDP

UDP (User Datagram Protocol) that widely used in streaming media transmission lacks of effective congestion control mechanisms, which affects transmission performance. In this paper, a Route Queue Management based end-to-end congestion scheme-MDCC (Mixed-Driven Congestion Control) is proposed. MDCC uses ARIO-C in middle node router and improved TFRC-based algorithm in congestion control which is adjusted to work with ARIO-C. The simulation results show MDCC is effective and efficient in improving performance of streaming media transmission.