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Scalable Performance Signalling and Congestion Avoidance

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  • © 2003

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Authors:
  1. Michael Welzl

    1. University of Innsbruck, Austria

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Michael Welzl
    Pages 1-5

  3. Related Work

    • Michael Welzl
    Pages 7-44

  4. PTP: A Framework for Explicit Performance Signalling

    • Michael Welzl
    Pages 45-90

  5. Congestion Avoidance with Distributed Proportional Control

    • Michael Welzl
    Pages 91-139

  6. Conclusion

    • Michael Welzl
    Pages 141-148

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 147-167
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This book answers a question which came about while the author was work­ ing on his diploma thesis [1]: would it be better to ask for the available band­ width instead of probing the network (like TCP does)? The diploma thesis was concerned with long-distance musical interaction ("NetMusic"). This is a very peculiar application: only a small amount of bandwidth may be necessary, but timely delivery and reduced loss are very important. Back then, these require­ ments led to a thorough investigation of existing telecommunication network mechanisms, but a satisfactory answer to the question could not be found. Simply put, the answer is "yes" - this work describes a mechanism which indeed enables an application to "ask for the available bandwidth". This obvi­ ously does not only concern online musical collaboration any longer. Among others, the mechanism yields the following advantages over existing alterna­ tives: • good throughput while maintaining close to zero loss and a small bottleneck queue length • usefulness for streaming media applications due to a very smooth rate • feasibility for satellite and wireless links • high scalability Additionally, a reusable framework for future applications that need to "ask the network" for certain performance data was developed.

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  • University of Innsbruck, Austria

    Michael Welzl

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