XTP: the Xpress Transfer Protocol
XTP: the Xpress Transfer Protocol
Partial-order transport service for multimedia and other applications
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
TCP/IP illustrated (vol. 2): the implementation
TCP/IP illustrated (vol. 2): the implementation
Retransmission-based error control for continuous media traffic in packet-switched networks
Retransmission-based error control for continuous media traffic in packet-switched networks
Implementation techniques for continuous media systems and applications
Implementation techniques for continuous media systems and applications
The design and implementation of the 4.4BSD operating system
The design and implementation of the 4.4BSD operating system
Promoting the use of end-to-end congestion control in the Internet
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Experimental evaluation of loss perception in continuous media
Multimedia Systems
Voice over ip fundamentals
An Adaptive Transport Service for Multimedia Streams
ICMCS '99 Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems - Volume 02
Human perception of jitter and media synchronization
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
MMNS '01 Proceedings of the 4th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services: Management of Multimedia on the Internet
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The introduction of multimedia in the Internet imposes new QoS requirements on existing transport protocols. Since neither TCP nor UDP comply with these requirements, a common approach today is to use RTP/UDP and to relegate the QoS responsibility to the application. Even though this approach has many advantages, it also entails leaving the responsibility for congestion control to the application. Considering the importance of efficient and reliable congestion control for maintaining stability in the Internet, this approach may prove dangerous. Improved support at the transport layer is therefore needed. In this paper, a partially reliable transport protocol, PRTP-ECN, is presented. PRTP-ECN is a protocol designed to be both TCP-friendly and to better comply with the QoS requirements of applications with soft real-time constraints. This is achieved by trading reliability for better jitter characteristics and improved throughput. A simulation study of PRTP-ECN has been conducted. The outcome of this evaluation suggests that PRTPECN can give applications that tolerate a limited amount of packet loss significant reductions in interarrival jitter and improvements in throughput as compared to TCP. The simulations also verified the TCP-friendly behavior of PRTP-ECN.