Raising the Datagram API to Support Transport Protocol Evolution

Some application developers can wield huge resources to build new transport protocols, for these developers the present UDP Socket API is perfectly fine. They have access to large test beds and sophisticated tools. Many developers do not have these resources. This paper presents a new high-level Datagram API that is for everyone else, this has an advantage of offering a clear evolutionary path to support new requirements. This new API is needed to move forward the base of the system, allowing developers with limited resources to evolve their applications while accessing new network services

Cross layer techniques for flexible transport protocol using UDP-Lite over a satellite network

Traditional real-time multimedia and streaming services have utilised UDP over RTP. Wireless transmission, by its nature, may introduce a variable, sometimes high bit error ratio. Current transport layer protocols drop all corrupted packets, in contrast, protocols such as UDP-Lite allow error-resilient applications to be supported in the networking stack. This paper presents experimental quantitative performance metrics using H.264 and UDP Lite for the next generation transport of IP multimedia, and discusses the architectural implications for enhancing performance of a wireless and/or satellite environment

Congestion-Aware Scalable Video Streaming

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Measuring Performance of Web Protocol with Updated Transport Layer Techniques for Faster Web Browsing

The author acknowledges the Electronics Research Group of University of Aberdeen, UK, for all the support in conducting these experiments. This research was completed as a part of the University of Aberdeen, dot.rural project. (EP/G066051/1).Publisher PD

Evaluation of the Impact of Packet Drops due to AQM over Capacity Limited Paths

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Flexible QoS Support in DVB-RCS2

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‘Stuck Out Here’ : The Critical Role of Broadband for Remote Rural Places

Funding This research is supported by the award made by the RCUK Digital Economy theme to the dot.rural Digital Economy Hub, award reference: EP/G066051/1.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Rethinking ACKs at the Transport Layer

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Exploration of RTP circuit breaker with applications to video streaming.

Live multimedia streaming is becoming one of the dominant sources of internet traffic, much of which is sent over best-effort networks, i.e. along paths with a wide variety of characteristics. The multimedia traffic should be transmitted using a robust and effective congestion control mechanism to protect the network from congestion collapse. The RTP Circuit Breaker (RTP-CB) is a candidate solution that causes a sender to cease transmission when RTCP message feedback indicates excessive congestion. This paper studies RTP/UDP video traffic and the impact of its bursty behaviour on the network. It considers the potential limitations of using a RTP-CB with video traffic. We found that the bursty nature of a typical video flow can cause the RTP-CB to either prematurely cease transmission or to react too late. To reduce the likelihood of this happening, we suggest the use of a smoothing buffer in conjunction with the RTP-CB and propose design criteria for this buffer. Our experiments confirm the effectiveness of the proposed approach for different video streams