Mitigating the Impact of Packet Reordering to Maximize Performance of Multimedia Applications

Golam Sarwar (1) , Emmanuel Lochin (2) , Roksana Boreli (1)

1 NICTA - National ICT Australia [Sydney]
2 ISAE-SUPAERO - Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace

We propose a solution to mitigate the performance degradation and corresponding Quality of Experience (QoE) reduction caused by packet reordering for multimedia applications which utilise unreliable transport protocols like the Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP). We analytically derive the optimum buffer size based on the applications data rate and the maximum delay tolerated by the multimedia application. We propose a dynamically adjustable buffer in the transport protocol receiver which uses this optimum buffer size. We demonstrate, via simulation results, that our solution reduces the packet loss rate, increases the perceived bandwidth and does not increase jitter in the received applications packets while still being within the application's delay limits, therefore resulting in an increased QoE of multimedia applications.

Mots clés: Transport protocol; QoE; VoIP; Video

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]

Golam Sarwar, Emmanuel Lochin, Roksana Boreli. Mitigating the Impact of Packet Reordering to Maximize Performance of Multimedia Applications. ICC 2011 - 2011 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Jun 2011, Kyoto, Japan. pp.1-5, ⟨10.1109/icc.2011.5963251⟩. ⟨hal-02554841⟩