The Principles of Low-Latency Media Centric Network Architectures
Thomas Kernen, Steven Posick · 2013
With the move to Internet Protocol (IP) networks, the desire to produce low-latency, high throughput networks has increased in recent years. But low-latency and high throughput do not necessarily go hand-in-hand. In fact there is somewhat of an inverse relationship between the two, despite the fact that latency plays a critical role in TCP/IP throughput. Microbursts, buffer/queue management, and poor software design all play significant roles in increasing latency. In this paper, we will discuss the key design principles for the creation of low-latency, high throughput IP networks for real-time media centric applications.