Measurement and Analysis Study of Congestion Detection for Internet Video Streaming
Marcos Paredes Farrera, Martin Fleury, Ken M. Guild, M. Ghanbari · Journal of Communications · 2010
Abstract — A measurement study was conducted of video streaming across a testbed with routers typical of those found at bottlenecks on the wired Internet. During ‘bursty’ traffic packet loss was not always fairly distributed between background flows and a video stream. The paper shows that packet-by-packet end-to-end delay, an alternative metric, has the ability to closely track queuing delay, responding to available bandwidth in a timely manner. A wider issue considered by the paper is to what extent one-way delay across a network path that includes bottleneck links can act to detect congestion. Index Terms — video streaming, congestion detection, traffic measurement I.