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A Multi-state Congestion Control Scheme for Rate Adaptable Unicast Continuous Media Flows

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Evolutionary Trends of the Internet (IWDC 2001)

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In this paper a multi-state rate adaptation scheme for rate adaptable continuous media (CM) sources is presented; the network bandwidth availability information is assumed to be communicated to the source only indirectly, through a notification of the packet losses. The developed scheme is capable of detecting and responding well to static (due to access bandwidth limitations) and long-term (due to initiation/termination of CM flows) bandwidth availability, as well as locking the rate of a CM flow to an appropriate value. Its performance is compared with that under a classic Additive Increase Multiplicative Decrease algorithm and its shown to perform better in terms of a number of relevant metrics, such as packet losses, oscillatory behavior, and fairness.

This work has been supported in part by the IST Program “Videogateway” of the EU (IST-1999-10160).

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  1. Communication Networks Laboratory (CNL) Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens (UoA), 15784, Athens, Greece

    Pantelis Balaouras & Ioannis Stavrakakis

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    Sergio Palazzo

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Balaouras, P., Stavrakakis, I. (2001). A Multi-state Congestion Control Scheme for Rate Adaptable Unicast Continuous Media Flows. In: Palazzo, S. (eds) Evolutionary Trends of the Internet. IWDC 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2170. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45400-4_29

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