A max-min fairness congestion control for streaming layered video

In a best-effort networking environment, efficient and fair congestion control is highly desired for every traffic flow, to share the bandwidth appropriately. This paper proposes a congestion control algorithm for UDP based layered video, whose bandwidth resolution in each layer has been predefined. This proposed congestion control mechanism is an extension of XCP, which is a newly proposed protocol believed to be superior to TCP, especially for high bandwidth-delay product networks. This paper also introduces reserved packet length so that the layered video traffic can share the bandwidth of a network better with the consideration of max-min fairness to other traffic.