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Adaptive Smooth Simulcast Protocol (ASSP) for Video Applications: Description and Performance Evaluation

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In this paper, we present Adaptive Smooth Simulcast Protocol (ASSP) for simulcast transmission of multimedia data over best-effort networks. ASSP is a new multiple-rate protocol that implements a single rate TCP-friendly protocol as the underlying congestion control mechanism for each simulcast stream. The key attributes of ASSP are: (a) TCP-friendly behavior, (b) adaptive per-stream transmission rates, (c) adaptive scalability to large sets of receivers and (d) smooth transmission rates that are suitable for multimedia applications. We evaluate the performance of ASSP under an integrated simulation environment which combines the measurements of both network and video performance metrics. We also compare ASSP against other proposed solutions and the results demonstrate that the performance of ASSP is significantly better than the tested solutions. Finally, ASSP is a practical solution with very low implementation complexity for video transmission over best-effort networks.

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  1. The subscription level is the stream in which the receiver makes a join request.

  2. Coefficient of Variation (CoV) is the standard deviation divided by the mean.

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    Christos Bouras, Apostolos Gkamas & Georgios Kioumourtzis

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Bouras, C., Gkamas, A. & Kioumourtzis, G. Adaptive Smooth Simulcast Protocol (ASSP) for Video Applications: Description and Performance Evaluation. J Netw Syst Manage 19, 143–177 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10922-010-9159-8

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