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2005 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo
Estimating Packet Arrival Times in Bursty Video Applications
Amsterdam, Netherlands
July 06-July 06
ISBN: 0-7803-9331-7
A.C. Begen, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA USA, acbegen@ece.gatech.edu
In retransmission-based error-control methods, the most fundamental yet the paramount problem is to determine how long the sender (or the receiver) should wait before deciding that an un acknowledged (or a missing) packet is lost. This waiting time is generally referred to as retransmission timeout (RTO). An accurate RTO estimation has two main advantages: First, the lost packets can be identified earlier, and hence, can be recovered faster. Second, redundant retransmissions can be avoided, which subsequently not only saves the network resources, but also helps existing network congestion alleviate sooner. Although it is statistically possible to prevent any unnecessary retransmission at the expense of long error-recovery times, such an approach can only be justified for data applications; it is not well-suited for delay sensitive applications, for which the agility in recovering the lost packets is as important. With this motivation, we recently introduced an RTO estimation algorithm for delay-sensitive applications [1]. Provided that the packets are transmitted at equal intervals, this technique successfully estimates the arrival times based on the interarrival-time observations. In this study, we relax the requirement of equal transmission intervals and generalize our technique to handle bursty video applications.
Citation:
A.C. Begen, Y. Altunbasak, "Estimating Packet Arrival Times in Bursty Video Applications," icme, pp.767-770, 2005 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, 2005
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