Modeling TCP throughput: a simple model and its empirical validation
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM '98 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
Allowable Propagation Delay for VoIP Calls of Acceptable Quality
AISA '02 Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Advanced Internet Services and Applications
Time-lined TCP for the TCP-friendly delivery of streaming media
ICNP '00 Proceedings of the 2000 International Conference on Network Protocols
Multimedia streaming via TCP: an analytic performance study
Proceedings of the 12th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia
Measuring the evolution of transport protocols in the internet
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Real-time monitoring of video quality in IP networks
NOSSDAV '05 Proceedings of the international workshop on Network and operating systems support for digital audio and video
Designing DCCP: congestion control without reliability
Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Quantifying Skype user satisfaction
Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Delving into internet streaming media delivery: a quality and resource utilization perspective
Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
An empirical evaluation of TCP performance in online games
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGCHI international conference on Advances in computer entertainment technology
Multipath live streaming via TCP: scheme, performance and benefits
CoNEXT '07 Proceedings of the 2007 ACM CoNEXT conference
Delay tolerant bulk data transfers on the internet
Proceedings of the eleventh international joint conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Exploiting multiple paths and diversity in wireless networks for high goodput and low latency
COMSNETS'09 Proceedings of the First international conference on COMmunication Systems And NETworks
ISWCS'09 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems
Towards more adaptive voice applications
ISoLA'10 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Leveraging applications of formal methods, verification, and validation - Volume Part I
The delay-friendliness of TCP for real-time traffic
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Enhancing TCP to support rate-limited traffic
Proceedings of the 2012 ACM workshop on Capacity sharing
Flexible dual TCP/UDP streaming for H.264 HD video over WLANs
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication
MPRTP: multipath considerations for real-time media
Proceedings of the 4th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference
Congestion control using FEC for conversational multimedia communication
Proceedings of the 5th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference
Delay-tolerant bulk data transfers on the internet
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
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TCP has traditionally been considered unfriendly for real-time applications. Nonetheless, popular applications such as Skype use TCP since UDP packets cannot pass through many NATs and firewalls. Motivated by this observation, we study the delay performance of TCP for real-time media flows. We develop an analytical performance model for the delay of TCP. We use extensive experiments to validate the model and to evaluate the impact of various TCP mechanisms on its delay performance. Based on our results, we derive the working region for VoIP and live video streaming applications and provide guidelines for delay-friendly TCP settings. Our research indicates that simple application-level schemes, such as packet splitting and parallel connections, can reduce the delay of real-time TCP flows by as much as 30% and 90%, respectively.