THE PROTOCOL MODEL FOR THE CONGESTION CONTROL
Henri Coandă · 2011
The current Internet allows applications to use the network with arbitrary data rates and congestion response, potentially in a harmful way. Protection of the public network may not be a practically important problem when the majority of Internet applications uses TCP. However, it becomes serious with the growth of delay sensitive applications such as streaming media, which often prefer UDP over TCP as their transport protocol choice. A non-TCP protocol is called TCP-friendly when it yields the same throughput as traditional TCP. TCP-friendly protocols are generally used for multimedia/real- time applications. This paper proposes a TCP-friendly protocol model for the streaming media based on Additive Increase / Multiplicative Decrease Control algorithm (AIMD) .