Transport-Layer Support for Multimedia Applications
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The majority of real-time multimedia traffic on the Internet is transported using the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) or the User Datagram Protocol (UDP). Multimedia applications would benefit from a protocol that better supports their particular requirements, but transport layer ossification has limited the deployment of such protocols. This paper describes unordered time-lined TCP (uTLTCP), a modified version of TCP that is more suitable for real-time multimedia applications, whilst also benefiting from widespread deployability. Proof-of-concept evaluations show that this protocol increases the utility of the network when compared with unmodified TCP and UDP.
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