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The transmission of multimedia content in a multicast environment is still a topic of active research. New congestion control protocols that can support the needs of real time transmission, while keeping the current Internet stability, are needed. While there already exist some protocols suitable for multimedia transmission in unicast communications, and there are also protocols capable of transmitting data to a large number of receivers simultaneously, our protocol is designed for achieving both goals at the same time. In this paper we present a novel protocol designed for multimedia streaming in multicast networks. Our simulation results show that the protocol is compatible with TCP flows, thus preserving the network stability, and is suitable for real-time multimedia transmissions, as it has low oscillations in its throughput and imposes no additional network delays that could increase the latency.
This work was supported by the project “TIC2 000–1126 of the Plan Nacional de Investigación Científica, Desarrollo e Innovación Tecnológica” and by the grant PGIDT01PX132202PN of the “Secretaría Xeral de I+D da Xunta de Galicia.”
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Rodríguez-Pérez, M., Fernández-Veiga, M., Herrería-Alonso, S., Suárez-González, A., López-García, C. (2004). A Receiver Based Single-Layer Multicast Congestion Control Protocol for Multimedia Streaming. In: Mitrou, N., Kontovasilis, K., Rouskas, G.N., Iliadis, I., Merakos, L. (eds) Networking 2004. NETWORKING 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3042. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24693-0_46
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