TCP - IP White Papers
Translating Scalable Video Streams From Wide-Area to Access Networks
Overview Transmitting video over UDP has been considered advantageous because it allows for discarding of packets in favor of retransmissions, and sender-controlled timing. Using UDP has been criticized because it allows video streams to consume more than their fair share of bandwidth, which is typically associated with the back-off behavior of TCP. TCP-friendly algorithms are meant as a middle path. However, UDP delivery to end systems may still be prevented by firewalls or for other reasons, and TCP must be used. This in turn suffers from bandwidth fluctuations. Therefore, this paper investigates an architecture that separates the transfer of a video stream over long distances in a TCP-friendly transmission in the backbone and TCP transmission in access networks.
| Publisher | University of Oslo | File Format | |
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| Date Published | January 2007 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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