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Improving Quality of Service in Wireless Multimedia Communication with Smooth TCP

Authors:
Michael Bauer
Md. Ashfaqul Islam

Keywords: wireless communication, multimedia, TCP, performance

Abstract:
Wireless multimedia communications are becoming mainstays of many applications and these applications are likely to continue to grow and become more demanding. TCP, though not designed for this kind of communication, is still commonly used. Smooth TCP (STCP) has been introduced in previous research as a variant of TCP with properties that can enable it to work better in environments in which TCP was not originally designed, such as wireless multimedia communications. While STCP has been compared to TCP is some situations, it has not been compared to TCP in wireless multimedia environments. In this paper, we briefly describe STCP and report on initial experiments that compare TCP and STCP through simulation. The the results suggest that STCP can provide better support than TCP for wireless multimedia communications.

Pages: 81 to 86

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: March 25, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4006

ISBN: 978-1-61208-186-1

Location: St. Maarten, The Netherlands Antilles

Dates: from March 25, 2012 to March 30, 2012