Optimizing Multimedia Experience in a Thin Client Environment for a Resource Constrained Processor

Ramanujan, GA and Thawani, Amit and Sridhar, V and Gopinath, K (2007) Optimizing Multimedia Experience in a Thin Client Environment for a Resource Constrained Processor. In: IWCMC '07 Proceedings of the 2007 international conference on Wireless communications and mobile computing , August 2007, New York, NY.

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Abstract

In this paper, we study how TCP and UDP flows interact with each other when the end system is a CPU resource constrained thin client. The problem addressed is twofold, 1) the throughput of TCP flows degrades severely in the presence of heavily loaded UDP flows 2) fairness and minimum QoS requirements of UDP are not maintained. First, we identify the factors affecting the TCP throughput by providing an in-depth analysis of end to end delay and packet loss variations. The results obtained from the first part leads us to our second contribution. We propose and study the use of an algorithm that ensures fairness across flows. The algorithm improves the performance of TCP flows in the presence of multiple UDP flows admitted under an admission algorithm and maintains the minimum QoS requirements of the UDP flows. The advantage of the algorithm is that it requires no changes to TCP/IP stack and control is achieved through receiver window control.

Item Type:	Conference Paper
Publisher:	ACM Press
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to ACM Press.
Keywords:	Multimedia;Thin Client;Resource Constraint
Department/Centre:	Division of Electrical Sciences > Computer Science & Automation
Date Deposited:	17 Oct 2011 07:13
Last Modified:	17 Oct 2011 07:13
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/41478

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