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Congestion control for real-time media over QUIC

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Mathis Engelbart,

Jörg OttAuthors Info & Claims

EPIQ '21: Proceedings of the 2021 Workshop on Evolution, Performance and Interoperability of QUIC

Pages 1 - 7

https://doi.org/10.1145/3488660.3493801

Published: 07 December 2021 Publication History

Abstract

QUIC is the new transport protocol for the Internet, designed for secure, reliable communication, especially with the web in mind. While multimedia streaming, allowing for some playout delay, has been widely run on top of reliable transport protocols, conversational multimedia usually requires unreliable ones, often using RTP over UDP. A recent extension to QUIC supports unreliable datagrams within QUIC connections so that also real-time media can be supported. In this paper, we investigate a recent design for RTP over QUIC with a focus on congestion control and the related signaling. We implement a strawman using Gstreamer and quic-go and evaluate different permutations of congestion control algorithms and signaling in a simple testbed.

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Congestion control for real-time media over QUIC
1. Networks
  1. Network protocols
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