JRC: Jitter-based Rate Control for Wired-wireless Hybrid Network

Rate Control plays an key role for many multimedia services such as streaming applications. These streaming applications such as video on demand (VoD) or voice over IP (VoIP) services face some critical problems such as insufficient bandwidth and improper performance of transmission protocols. Emerging real-time multimedia services over IP grow fast with the advent of advanced broadband communications and innovated interconnection technologies. Besides, the new generation networks are expected to integrate all heterogeneous wired and wireless networks and offer seamless customized multimedia services anywhere, anytime. However, wireless networks usually with low and variable bandwidth, and noncongestion related loss do bring the challenge to the existing transport protocol, such as TCP, TFRC etc. In this paper we propose a rate control scheme named Jitter-based Rate Control (JRC) to fit wired-wireless hybrid network which has better performance than the current rate control scheme.