Additional References

• Van Jacobson’s paper “Congestion Avoidance and Control” is a foundational work in the field of TCP congestion control. He wrote an updated version of this in 1992.

V. Jacobson. Congestion Avoidance and control. SIGCOMM Symposium on Communications Architectures and Protocols, 1988.

• The following paper develops an argument against the traditional view that TCP is unsuitable for streaming media applications:

C. Krasic, K. Li and J. Walpole. The Case for Streaming Multimedia with TCP. 8^th International Workshop on Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems, 2001.

• The real-world and ns implementations of the TFRC protocol are available at the webpage below. Pointers to a number of other relevant papers (including a proposed RFC for TFRC) are also available here.

S. Floyd, M. Handley, J. Padhye and J. Widmer. Equation-based Congestion Control for Unicast Applications: Simulation Scripts and Experimental Code, 2000. URL: http://www.aciri.org/tfrc.

• Pointers to a lot of interesting research on congestion control can be found at Sally Floyd’s (the lead author of this paper) webpage at the International Computer Science Institute’s (ICSI) Center for Internet Research (ICIR). URL: http://www.icir.org/floyd.

• As mentioned in the paper, equation-based congestion control may be adapted for multicast transmission. The webpage for the Reliable Multicast Research Group at the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute – East, presents some research on equation-based approaches to multicast congestion control. URL: http://www.east.isi.edu/RMRG.

• The following paper contains a derivation of the TCP response function used by TFRC:

J. Padhye, V. Firoiu, D. Towsley and J. Kurose. Modeling TCP Throughput: A Simple Model and its Empirical Validation. SIGCOMM Symposium on Communications Architectures and Protocols, 1998.

• The following paper provides an introduction to the Dummynet network emulator used to study the performance of TFRC.

L. Rizzo. Dummynet and Forward Error Correction. Freenix 98, 1998.

• Information on the ns network simulator used to study the performance of TFRC can be found at the webpage for this tool. URL: http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns.

• The following papers present previous related work on equation-based and other congestion control schemes:

D. Bansal and H. Balakrishnan. TCP-Friendly Congestion Control for Real-Time Streaming Applications. MIT Technical Report MIT-LCS-TR-806, 2000.

S. Jacobs and A. Eleftheriadis. Providing Video Services over Networks without Quality of Service Guarantees. World Wide Web Consortium Workshop on Real-Time Multimedia and the Web, 1996.

R. Jain, K. Ramakrishnan and D. Chiu. Congestion Avoidance in Computer Networks with a Connectionless Network Layer. Digital Equipment Corportation Technical Report DEC-TR-506, 1987.

J. Padhye, J. Kurose, D. Towsley and R. Koodli. A Model Based TCP-Friendly Rate Control Protocol. NOSSDAV’99, 1999.

R. Rejaie, M. Handley and D. Estrin. An End-to-End Rate Based Congestion Control Mechanism for Real-Time Streams in the Internet. INFOCOMM’99, 1999.

D. Sisalem and H. Schulzrinne. The Loss-Delay Based Adjustment Algorithm: A TCP-Friendly Adaptation Scheme. NOSSDAV’98, 1998.

D. Tan and A. Zakhor. Real-Time Internet Video Using Error Resilient Scalable Compression and TCP-Friendly Transport Protocol. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, May 1999.