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Measurements of the congestion responsiveness of windows streaming media

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While previous research has shown that streaming media can respond to network congestion, it is not known to what extent commercial products are responsive. This research characterizes the bitrate response of Windows Streaming Media (WSM) to changes in network capacity and loss rate. A streaming media test bed was built to systematically vary network and content encoding characteristics and measure WSM congestion responsiveness. The results demonstrate that WSM improve response to congestion when content is encoded into several bitrates by the content provider.

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      NOSSDAV '04: Proceedings of the 14th international workshop on Network and operating systems support for digital audio and video
      June 2004
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      DOI:10.1145/1005847
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