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Characterizing the Behaviour of RealVideo Streams
Overview Unresponsive streaming media traffic can significantly impede the performance of other networking applications and even endanger the stability of the Internet. Therefore, with increased deployment of high-bandwidth commercial streaming video applications on the Internet, understanding the characteristics of proprietary streaming formats is pertinent. This paper uses an experimental testbed to characterize the behaviour of RealVideo streams under different network conditions, with special emphasis on understanding their "TCP friendliness". In many scenarios, the experimental results show that RealVideo streams are not TCP friendly. The results also show that the new TurboPlay feature fundamentally changes the behaviour of RealVideo streams, making them more aggressive.
| Publisher | University of Calgary | File Format | |
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| Date Published | January 2007 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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