Paper Info
Title
Congestion Control for Network-Aware Telehaptic Communication.
Abstract
Telehaptic applications involve delay-sensitive multimedia communication between remote locations with distinct Quality of Service (QoS) requirements for different media components. These QoS constraints pose a variety of challenges, especially when the communication occurs over a shared network, with unknown and time-varying cross-traffic. In this work, we propose a transport layer congestion control protocol for telehaptic applications operating over shared networks, termed as Dynamic Packetization Module (DPM). DPM is a lossless, network-aware protocol that tunes the telehaptic packetization rate based on the level of congestion in the network. To monitor the network congestion, we devise a novel network feedback module, which communicates the end-to-end delays encountered by the telehaptic packets to the respective transmitters with negligible overhead. Via extensive simulations, we show that DPM meets the QoS requirements of telehaptic applications over a wide range of network cross-traffic conditions. We also report qualitative results of a real-time telepottery experiment with several human subjects, which reveal that DPM preserves the quality of telehaptic activity even under heavily congested network scenarios. Finally, we compare the performance of DPM with several previously proposed telehaptic communication protocols and demonstrate that DPM outperforms these protocols.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1145/3052821
TOMCCAP
Keywords
Field
DocType
Telehaptic communication,congestion control,transport layer,dynamic rate adaptation,QoS,multimedia
Computer science,Network packet,Network aware,Computer network,Quality of service,Transport layer,Network congestion,Telehaptic,Communications protocol,Lossless compression
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
13
2
1551-6857
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.37
25
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gokhale, Vineet1152.63
Jayakrishnan Nair27220.59
Subhasis Chaudhuri31384133.18