Media-Friendliness of A Slowly-Responsive Congestion
Control Protocol
Zhiheng Wang
Dept. of EECS
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Sujata Banerjee
Internet Systems & Storage Lab
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
Palo Alto, CA 94304
Sugih Jamin
Dept. of EECS
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
ABSTRACT
Streaming media transfers over the Internet are expected to behave
in a TCP-friendly manner while reacting slower to congestion than
TCP. For this purpose, a number of slowly-responsive congestion
control protocols have been developed. In this paper, we present
our study on the media-friendliness of TFRC, one of the recently
developed slowly-responsive congestion control mechanisms. With
both simulation and Internet experiments, we show that TFRC is
not necessarily smooth enough to be “media-friendly”. We also
discuss our approach to improve a congestion control mechanism’s
media-friendliness.
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