Congestion Control Requirements for Interactive Real-Time Media

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Publisher: IETF
Doc Type: Informational
Pages: 10
Abstract: Congestion control is needed for all data transported across the Internet, in order to promote fair usage and prevent congestion collapse. The requirements for interactive, point-to-point real-time multimedia, which needs low-delay, semi-reliable data delivery, are different from the requirements for bulk transfer like FTP or bursty transfers like web pages. Due to an increasing amount of RTP-based real-time media traffic on the Internet (e.g., with the introduction of the Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC)), it is especially important to ensure that this kind of traffic is congestion controlled. This document describes a set of requirements that can be used to evaluate other congestion control mechanisms in order to figure out their fitness for this purpose, and in particular to provide a set of possible requirements for a real-time media congestion avoidance technique.
Publication Date: 2021-01-01
Status Note: Informational
DOI: 10.17487/RFC8836
Link: https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC8836
Author(s): Randell Jesup
Zaheduzzaman Sarker
Keyword(s): Interactive Multimedia, WebRTC, Video Communication, RTP/RTCP

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ISO.23009-1.2019 — International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commision (ISO/IEC) 23009-1:2019, “Information Technology—Dynamic Adaptive Streaming Over HTTP (DASH)—Part 1: Media Presentation Description and Segment Formats (4th Ed.),” 2019. [Online]. Available: https://www.iso.org/standard/79329.html EXTERNAL
Choi, S. and M. Handley, "Designing TCP-Friendly Window-based Congestion Control for Real-time Multimedia Applications", Proceedings of PFLDNeT, May 2009. EXTERNAL
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IETF RFC 4828 [Active*]
IETF RFC 5348 [Active*]
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