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Performance Characterization of Streaming Video over TCP Variants

Authors:
Dirceu Cavendish
Gaku Wataabe
Kazumi Kumazoe
Daiki Nobayashi
Takeshi Ikenaga
Yuji Oie

Keywords: video streaming; high speed networks; TCP congestion control; packet retransmissions; packet loss

Abstract:
Video streaming has become the major source of Internet traffic. In addition, content delivery network providers have adopted Video over HTTP/TCP as the preferred protocol stack for video streaming. In this paper, we characterize the performance of various TCP variants when transporting video traffic over various network scenarios. We utilize network performance measurers, as well as video quality metrics, to characterize the performance and interaction between network and application layers of video streams for various network scenarios. We show that no widely deployed TCP variant is able to deliver best performance across all scenarios evaluated.

Pages: 16 to 21

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: July 21, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-443X

ISBN: 978-1-61208-285-1

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from July 21, 2013 to July 26, 2013