A survey on buffer and rate adaptation optimization in TCP-based streaming media studies

• Main Authors: Che Mohamed Arif, Ahmad Suki, Hassan, Suhaidi, Ghazali, Osman
• Format: Book Section
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Utara Malaysia 2008
• Subjects: TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
• Online Access: http://repo.uum.edu.my/2198/1/Surver_Paper-Buffer_and_Rate_Adaptation_Optimization.pdf; http://repo.uum.edu.my/2198/; http://www.internetworks.my/NetApps2008/Proceedings/accepted%20paper/Surver%20Paper-Buffer%20and%20Rate%20Adaptation%20Optimization.pdf

Contrary to the popular conventional wisdom that the best transport protocol for the streaming media is UDP, many findings found that most of the transport protocols used nowadays are TCP. Two main reasons that UDP is not being used widely are it is not friendly to other flows and some organizatio...