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Improving the Start-Up Behaviour of TCP-Friendly Media Transmissions

Overview The Internet has built its success story to a large degree on the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). Since TCP still represents the by far most important transport protocol in the current Internet traffic mix, new applications like media streaming need to take into account the social rules implied by TCP's congestion control algorithms, i.e., they need to behave TCP-friendly. One problem of this insight is that these new applications are not always well served by inheriting TCP's transmission scheme. In particular, TCP's initial start-up behaviour is a problem for streaming applications. This paper tries to address this problem by proposing a reflective server design which allows doing inter-session congestion control, i.e., to share network performance experiences between sessions to make informed congestion control decisions.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Darmstadt University of Technology	File Format	PDF
Date Published	April 2005
Format	White Papers
Topics	TCP - IP, IP Technologies, Streaming Media

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