Multimedia streaming via TCP

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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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  • Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (ANI-9977635ANI-9980552CCR-9984030EEC-0313747 001)
  • Division of Engineering Education and Centers (ANI-9977635ANI-9980552CCR-9984030EEC-0313747 001)
  • National Science Foundation (ANI-9977635ANI-9980552CCR-9984030EEC-0313747 001)

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