Performance of Early Retransmission Scheme In Streaming Media Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • In this paper, we propose a new variant of TCP with an early retransmission scheme as an enhancement to make it more suitable for streaming media. We call this new protocol TCP-ER. We performed extensive ns2 simulations to show that: 1) The early retransmission scheme can considerably reduce the number of retransmission timeouts and packet delay jitter in a variety of network environments. 2) TCP-ER has a higher throughput in severely congested network conditions whereas stays relatively fair with typical TCP implementations(specifically TCP-SACK) as congestion gets alleviated. 3) Under same network conditions, constrained streaming over TCP-ER has a considerably lower number of late packets than its normal TCP counterpart. 2009 IEEE.

name of conference

  • 2010 17th International Conference on Telecommunications

published proceedings

  • 2010 17th International Conference on Telecommunications

author list (cited authors)

  • Yin, Z., Alnuweiri, H., & Reddy, A.

citation count

  • 1

complete list of authors

  • Yin, Zhiyuan||Alnuweiri, Hussein||Reddy, AL Narasimha

publication date

  • January 2010