Paper Info
Title
TCP-ROME: A transport-layer parallel streaming protocol for real-time online multimedia environments.
Abstract
Real-time multimedia streaming over the Internet is rapidly increasing with the popularity of user-created contents, Web 2.0 trends, and P2P (peer-to-peer) delivery support. While many homes today are broadband-enabled, the quality of experience (QoE) of a user is still limited due to frequent interruption of media playout. The vulnerability of TCP (transmission control protocol), the popular transport-layer protocol for streaming in practice, to the packet losses, retransmissions, and timeouts makes it hard to deliver a timely and persistent flow of packets for online multimedia contents. This paper presents TCP-real-time online multimedia environment (ROME), a novel transport-layer framework that allows the establishment and coordination of multiple many-to-one TCP connections. Between one client with multiple home addresses and multiple co-located or distributed servers, TCP-ROME increases the total throughput by aggregating the resources of multiple TCP connections. It also overcomes the bandwidth fluctuations of network bottlenecks by dynamically coordinating the streams of contents from multiple servers and by adapting the streaming rate of all connections to match the bandwidth requirement of the target video.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/JCN.2011.6157437
JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Parallel streaming protocol,parallel TCP,rate and content coordination,real-time online streaming
Peer-to-peer,Real Time Streaming Protocol,Computer science,Server,Network packet,Computer network,Real-time computing,Transport layer,Transmission Control Protocol,Throughput,Multimedia,The Internet
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
13
3
1229-2370
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.45
11
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ju-Won Park1195.09
Roger P. Karrer230846.98
Jongwon Kim31042153.38