Towards a Fairness Multimedia Transmission Using Layered-Based Multicast Protocol

• Published in: IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems Vol. E93.D; no. 11; pp. 2953 - 2961
• Main Authors: SUKOCO, Heru, HORI, Yoshiaki, Hendrawan, SAKURAI, Kouichi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers 2010
• Subjects: Congestion; convergence time; fairness; Internet; Jitter; Multicast; network simulator; packet loss ratio; Pareto; quality of service; Receiver-driven Layered Multicast; Simulation; TCP (protocol); TCP friendly; throughput; Traffic engineering; Traffic flow
• ISSN: 0916-8532; 1745-1361; 1745-1361
• DOI: 10.1587/transinf.E93.D.2953

The distribution of streaming multicast and real time audio/video applications in the Internet has been quickly increased in the Internet. Commonly, these applications rarely use congestion control and do not fairly share provided network capacity with TCP-based applications such as HTTP, FTP and emails. Therefore, Internet communities will be threatened by the increase of non-TCP-based applications that likely cause a significant increase of traffics congestion and starvation. This paper proposes a set of mechanisms, such as providing various data rates, background traffics, and various scenarios, to act friendly with TCP when sending multicast traffics. By using 8 scenarios of simulations, we use 6 layered multicast transmissions with background traffic Pareto with the shape factor 1.5 to evaluate performance metrics such as throughput, delay/latency, jitter, TCP friendliness, packet loss ratio, and convergence time. Our study shows that non TCP traffics behave fairly and respectful of the co-existent TCP-based applications that run on shared link transmissions even with background traffic. Another result shows that the simulation has low values on throughput, vary in jitter (0-10ms), and packet loss ratio > 3%. It was also difficult to reach convergence time quickly when involving only non TCP traffics.