The delay-friendliness of TCP for real-time traffic

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1478-1491

  Brosh, Eli ^a   Baset, Salman Abdul ^a   Misra, Vishal ^a   Rubenstein, Dan ^a   Schulzrinne, Henning ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Live video streaming; measurement; performance modeling; TCP congestion control; VoIP

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL PERFORMANCE MODEL; DELAY PERFORMANCE; LEVEL SCHEMES; LIVE VIDEO STREAMING; NETWORK ADDRESS TRANSLATORS; PARALLEL CONNECTIONS; PERFORMANCE MODELING; REAL TIME TRAFFICS; REAL-TIME APPLICATION; TCP CONGESTION CONTROL; TCP FLOWS; VOIP;

ACOUSTIC STREAMING; ELECTRIC CONNECTORS; INTERNET TELEPHONY; VIDEO STREAMING; VIDEOTEX; VOICE/DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

EID: 77958149987     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2010.2050780     Document Type: Article

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