Layered FGS video over active network with selective drop and adaptive rate control

Quality of service has been a great concern to video dissemination over the Internet, especially due to the heterogeneous networking environment. In contrast to the traditional passive networking, active networking by means of active routers/agents in a wide area network shows promise of better video service by offering packet control at finer resolution. This paper proposes an effective architecture based on active router and selective drop queue management as a solution to video unicast and multicast in a variable network environment.