Håvard Espeland
Håkon Kvale Stensland
Pål Halvorsen
ABSTRACT
Today, major newspapers and TV stations make live and on-demand audio/video content available, video-on-demand services are becoming common and even personal media are frequently uploaded to streaming sites. The discussion about the best transport protocol for streaming has been going on for years. Currently, HTTP-streaming is usual although the transport of streaming media data over TCP is hindered by TCP's probing behavior, which results in the rapid reduction and slow recovery of the packet rates. On the other hand, UDP has been criticized for being unfair against TCP, and it is therefore often blocked by access network providers.
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Index Terms
- Transparent protocol translation and load balancing on a network processor in a media streaming scenario
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