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Low-latency adaptive streaming over tcp

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Charles Krasic,

Jonathan WalpoleAuthors Info & Claims

ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM), Volume 4, Issue 3

Article No.: 20, Pages 1 - 20

https://doi.org/10.1145/1386109.1386113

Published: 18 September 2008 Publication History

Abstract

Media streaming over TCP has become increasingly popular because TCP's congestion control provides remarkable stability to the Internet. Streaming over TCP requires adapting to bandwidth availability, but unforunately, TCP can introduce significant latency at the application level, which causes unresponsive and poor adaptation. This article shows that this latency is not inherent in TCP but occurs as a result of throughput-optimized TCP implementations. We show that this latency can be minimized by dynamically tuning TCP's send buffer. Our evaluation shows that this approach leads to better application-level adaptation and it allows supporting interactive and other low-latency applications over TCP.

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Index Terms

Low-latency adaptive streaming over tcp
1. Networks
  1. Network protocols
    1. Transport protocols
  2. Network types
    1. Public Internet
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Contextual software domains
      1. Operating systems
        Communications management
        Buffering

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ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications Volume 4, Issue 3

August 2008

136 pages

ISSN:1551-6857

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DOI:10.1145/1386109

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Published: 18 September 2008

Accepted: 01 October 2007

Revised: 01 November 2005

Received: 01 June 2005

Published in TOMM Volume 4, Issue 3

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