Since December 2008, the official BitTorrent client is using a new congestion-control protocol for data transfer, implemented at the application layer and built over UDP at the tr...
It is beyond any doubt that the unpredictable nature of the today’s Internet has tremendous impact on the transmission of video streams. With respect to the realtime nature of v...
Pavlos Antoniou, Andreas Pitsillides, Vasos Vassil...
— TCP-friendly rate control (TFRC) is a congestion control technique that trade-offs responsiveness to the network conditions for a smoother throughput variation. We take advanta...
While ATM bandwidth-reservation techniques are able to o er the guarantees necessary for the delivery of real-time streams in many applications (e.g. live audio and video), they s...
— End-to-end congestion control mechanisms such as those in TCP are not enough to prevent congestion collapse in the Internet (for starters, not all applications might be willing...