Low-variance TCP-friendly throughput estimation for congestion control of layered video multicast

Author

Nahm, Kitae ; Kuo, C. C Jay

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2004

fDate

23-26 May 2004

Abstract

A low-variance TCP-friendly throughput estimation scheme for robust congestion control of layered video transmission is presented in this work. We propose the inclusion of min-max averaging operation in the basic average loss interval (ALI) algorithm. The proposed operation helps reduce the variance of the ALI estimation by suppressing the correlation of neighboring loss intervals arising from the TCP additive-increase-multiplicative-decrease (AIMD) behavior. The resulting low-variance TCP throughput estimation scheme is applied to layered video multicast congestion control, and its performance is evaluated via computer simulation.

Keywords

digital simulation; minimax techniques; multicast communication; robust control; telecommunication congestion control; transport protocols; visual communication; additive increase multiplicative decrease method; average loss interval algorithm; computer simulation; correlation suppression; layered video multicasting; layered video transmission; low variance TCP friendly throughput estimation; minmax averaging operation; neighboring loss intervals; robust congestion control; Computer simulation; Equations; Fluctuations; Protocols; Robust control; Robustness; Steady-state; Streaming media; TCPIP; Throughput;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 2004. ISCAS '04. Proceedings of the 2004 International Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8251-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCAS.2004.1329245

Filename

1329245