Improving media sensitivity of TCP-friendly rate control for multimedia streaming applications
Adrian Sterca · 2008
In this paper, we present a TCP-friendly congestion control that is at the same time media-friendly (i.e. sensitive to media characteristics). These types of rate controls are more suitable for multimedia streaming applications than the classical TCP congestion control and smooth TCP-friendly rate controls. We build our media-friendly rate control by combining the notion of TCP-friendliness with a general optimization framework for bandwidth sharing in computer networks. The resulting control is sensitive to network conditions (i.e. TCP-friendly) and also to multimedia stream characteristics (i.e. media-friendly) which makes it more suitable for controlling the transmission rate of multimedia streaming applications and should improve the perceived quality of video streams in best-effort network conditions.