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Transparent Protocol Translation for Streaming

Category: Software and Web Development, Networking and Communications

Overview The transport of streaming media data over TCP is hindered by TCP's probing behavior that results in the rapid reduction and slow recovery of the packet rates. On the other side, UDP has been criticized for being unfair against TCP connections, and it is therefore often blocked out in the access networks. This paper tries to benefit from a combined approach using a proxy that transparently performs transport protocol translation. The paper translates HTTP requests by the client transparently into RTSP requests, and translates the corresponding RTP/UDP/AVP stream into the corresponding HTTP response. This enables the server to use UDP on the server side and TCP on the client side.

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Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
File Format: PDF
Date Published: Oct 22, 2008
Format: White Papers
Topics: Streaming Media, TCP - IP

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