AN IMPROVED CONGESTION CONTROL STRATEGY FOR TFRC OVER HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS

For advanced streaming applications over wired-wireless networks TCP-Friendly Rate Control (TFRC) has been widely adopted nowadays to give smooth sending rate and unceasing quality in streaming applications TFRC applies an equation-based rate control scheme. However, TFRC tends to fail in wireless environment if packet lost event was done by poor channel quality but network congestion. Therefore, TFRC not able to provide high quality-of-service for streaming applications over wired-wireless networks. In this paper, we proposed a delay based uni-directional delay jitter based TFRC with end-to-end semantic over wired-wireless networks. This scheme provide smooth sending rate and TCP friendly characteristics like standard TFRC, even it also increase the throughput by estimating the available bandwidth in wired-wireless networks with burst nature of background traffic. Simulation results show performance improvement without intrusiveness issue and even if background traffic is bursty over wired-wireless networks