Real-time streaming over wireless links: A comparative study

Guang Yang*, Ling Jyh Chen, Tony Sun, Mario Gerla, M. Y. Sanadidi

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Abstract

Real-time streaming over wireless links is challenging. The streaming protocol must be efficient and robust to random wireless loss, fair to itself, and friendly to legacy TCP. Various solutions have been proposed in the literature, among which the Video Transport Protocol (VTP), TFRC Wireless, and MULTFRC are end-to-end representatives. In this paper we provide an in-depth comparison on the performance of VTP, TFRC Wireless, and MULTFRC in various wireless scenarios. The results show that VTP and TFRC Wireless both perform well and deliver similar performance, with VTP exhibiting greater efficiency and smoothness in presence of heavy errors. In contrast, MULTFRC performs less satisfactorily, as it experiences large rate fluctuation and slow convergence caused by the frequent changes in the number of simultaneous connections.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 10th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, ISCC 2005
Pages249-254
Number of pages6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2005
Externally publishedYes
Event10th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, ISCC 2005 - Murcia, Spain
Duration: 2005 Jun 272005 Jun 30

Publication series

NameProceedings - IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications
ISSN (Print)1530-1346

Other

Other10th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, ISCC 2005
Country/TerritorySpain
CityMurcia
Period2005/06/272005/06/30

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Signal Processing
  • General Mathematics
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Computer Networks and Communications

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