Congestion control for Web-based multimedia playback applications

To guarantee network stability while supporting multimedia applications over the Internet, a new dynamically adjusted TCP-friendly additive increase and multiplicative decrease (AIMD) congestion control algorithm, DTAIMD, is proposed. By studying the competition behavior of TCP and AIMD flows, the TCP-friendly condition for the AIMD (/spl alpha/, /spl beta/) congestion control is analytically derived. Quality of service (QoS) for multimedia playback applications is enhanced by choosing an appropriate parameter pair of (/spl alpha/, /spl beta/). Simulation results show that the proposed DTAIMD congestion control scheme is TCP-friendly and suitable for supporting multimedia playback applications.