Transport protocol for real-time multimedia communication

Abstract

With the advancements in multimedia and networking technologies, many distributed multimedia applications have been developed recently. These new applications rely on the underlying network support to transmit the multimedia real-time data between sites. Multimedia Transport Protocol (MMTP) is an experimental protocol designed for transmission of various multimedia data. MMTP uses multiple priority queues to support different levels of service requirements, and it discards packets from the transmission queue to reduce the network loading, and to ensure packets transmitted will meet the real-time constraint required by the data streams.