Measured performance of TCP friendly rate control protocol over a 2.5G network

Author

Beaufort, Dominique ; Faÿ, Laurent ; Samson, Christophe ; Teil, Alain

Author_Institution

Philips Res. France, Suresnes, France

Volume

1

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

563

Abstract

As the General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) enters the European market, new services based on multimedia delivery are expected to represent a large amount of traffic in addition to traditional voice flows. Multimedia streaming applications generally require a rate control mechanism, to adapt the sending rate automatically to the time varying channel state. Rate control protocols provided with multimedia streaming stacks should be TCP-friendly, in order to avoid starvation of TCP traffic. The TCP friendly rate control (TFRC) protocol, currently under review by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), has been proposed as a rate control process and has been investigated in the field of multimedia transmission over wired packet-switched networks. We have investigated the TFRC protocol over a real GPRS network and report on the many measurements conducted in order to evaluate its performance over a 2.5G network.

Keywords

Internet; cellular radio; multimedia communication; packet radio networks; telecommunication traffic; time-varying channels; transport protocols; 2.5G network; European market; GPRS; GSM cellular networks; General Packet Radio Service; IETF; Internet Engineering Task Force; TCP friendly rate control protocol; multimedia streaming; time varying channel; wired packet-switched networks; Automatic control; Circuits; Communication system traffic control; GSM; Ground penetrating radar; IP networks; Internet; Streaming media; TCPIP; Transport protocols;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2002. Proceedings. VTC 2002-Fall. 2002 IEEE 56th

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7467-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECF.2002.1040407

Filename

1040407