Title
An Internet friendly transport protocol for continuous media over best effort networks
Abbreviated Journal Title
Int. J. Commun. Syst.
Keywords
congestion control; TCP-friendly protocols; best effort networks; media; streaming; differentiated services; network simulation; Internet health; CONGESTION CONTROL; CONNECTIONS; Engineering, Electrical & Electronic; Telecommunications
Abstract
In this paper, we design and evaluate an Internet friendly transport-level protocol (IFTP) for solving the TCP-friendly problem. IFTP has two modes of operation. In the standard mode, the IFTP connection faithfully emulates the behaviour of TCP in order to roughly obtain a bandwidth equal to that of a TCP connection. In the extended mode, a simple modification is used to grant QoS-differentiated services to selected connections. Connections running in the extended mode can get enhanced bandwidth while still emulating the general behaviour of TCP. We develop an analytical model for the congestion control mechanism of IFTP. We also derive analytically the amount of bandwidth that IFTP may be able to claim from TCP in ideal and non-ideal environments. We evaluate IFTP through simulation and prove its TCP friendliness as well as provide performance results on some of the important metrics such as packet delay, delay jitter, packet loss and link utilization. Copyright (C) 2002 John Wiley Sons, Ltd.
Journal Title
International Journal of Communication Systems
Volume
15
Issue/Number
10
Publication Date
1-1-2002
Document Type
Article
DOI Link
Language
English
First Page
881
Last Page
898
WOS Identifier
ISSN
1074-5351
Recommended Citation
"An Internet friendly transport protocol for continuous media over best effort networks" (2002). Faculty Bibliography 2000s. 3179.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/facultybib2000/3179