TCP enhancements for interactive thin-stream applications
Andreas Petlund, Kristian Evensen, Carsten Griwodz, Pål Halvorsen · 2008
TCP is frequently used for interactive multimedia applications like online games and voice-over-IP (VoIP) because it avoids firewall issues. However, traffic analysis shows that these streams usually have small packets and a low packet rate, and that in case of loss, severe latency penalties occur for all existing TCP variations in Linux [5]. In this demonstration, we show how small TCP enhancements greatly improve the perceived quality of such low latency, interactive applications.