Congestion control with two level rate control for continuous media traffic in network without QoS guarantee

Abstract

Recently, it is required to transfer continuous media over networks without QoS guarantee. In these networks, network congestion will cause transmission delay variance which degrades the quality of continuous media itself. This paper proposes a new protocol using congestion control with two level rate control in the data transfer level and the coding level. It introduces a TCP-like congestion control mechanism to the rate control of the data transfer level, which can detect the QoS change quickly, and adjust the coding rate of continuous media with a time interval long enough for its quality. The performance evaluation through software simulation with multiplexing continuous media traffic and TCP traffic shows that the proposed protocol works effectively in the case of network congestion.