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Multimedia streaming via TCP: An analytic performance study

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Prashant Shenoy,

Don TowsleyAuthors Info & Claims

ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM), Volume 4, Issue 2

Article No.: 16, Pages 1 - 22

https://doi.org/10.1145/1352012.1352020

Published: 16 May 2008 Publication History

Abstract

TCP is widely used in commercial multimedia streaming systems, with recent measurement studies indicating that a significant fraction of Internet streaming media is currently delivered over HTTP/TCP. These observations motivate us to develop analytic performance models to systematically investigate the performance of TCP for both live and stored-media streaming. We validate our models via ns simulations and experiments conducted over the Internet. Our models provide guidelines indicating the circumstances under which TCP streaming leads to satisfactory performance, showing, for example, that TCP generally provides good streaming performance when the achievable TCP throughput is roughly twice the media bitrate, with only a few seconds of startup delay.

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ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications Volume 4, Issue 2

May 2008

197 pages

ISSN:1551-6857

EISSN:1551-6865

DOI:10.1145/1352012

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Published: 16 May 2008

Accepted: 01 January 2007

Revised: 01 December 2006

Received: 01 May 2006

Published in TOMM Volume 4, Issue 2

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