TCP-RC: A receiver-centered TCP protocol for delay-sensitive applications

Doug McCreary; Kong Li; Scott A. Watterson; David K. Lowenthal

doi:10.1117/12.592252

TCP-RC: A receiver-centered TCP protocol for delay-sensitive applications

Doug McCreary, Kong Li, Scott A. Watterson, David K. Lowenthal

Computer Science

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Abstract

TCP is the de-facto standard transport-layer protocol in the Internet. However, TCP is generally considered to be inappropriate for delay-sensitive applications such as multimedia. This paper proposes a novel receiver-centered TCP (TCP-RC), which is a TCP modification at the receiver that is intended for delay-sensitive applications. The basic principle behind TCP-RC is that it achieves low latency at the expense of reliability. In particular, TCP-RC forges lost packets, passing them on to an enabled application. This allows low-latency transmission for a class of applications that do not demand full reliability. Results obtained from emulated experiments show that over a range of loss rates and round-trip times, TCP-RC has a significantly smaller average- and worst-case per-packet delay than regular TCP.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	12
Pages (from-to)	126-130
Number of pages	5
Journal	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	5680
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.592252
State	Published - 2005
Event	Proceedings of SPIE-IS and T Electronic Imaging - Multimedia Computing and Networking 2005 - San Jose, CA, United States Duration: Jan 19 2005 → Jan 20 2005

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Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Condensed Matter Physics
Computer Science Applications
Applied Mathematics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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