David G. Andersen, Deepak Bansal, Dorothy Curtis, Srinivasan Seshan, Hari Balakrishnan
4th USENIX OSDI, San Diego, CA, September 2000
This paper describes the implementation and evaluation of an operating
system module, the Congestion Manager (CM), which provides integrated
network flow management and exports a convenient programming interface
that allows applications to be notified of, and adapt to, changing
network conditions. We describe the API by which applications
interface with the CM, and the architectural considerations that
factored into the design. To evaluate the architecture and API, we
describe our implementations of TCP; a streaming layered audio/video
application; and an interactive audio application using the CM, and
show that they achieve adaptive behavior without incurring much
end-system overhead. All flows including TCP benefit from the sharing
of congestion information, and applications are able to incorporate
new functionality such as congestion control and adaptive behavior.
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Bibtex Entry:
@inproceedings{andersen2000system,
author = "David G. Andersen and Deepak Bansal and Dorothy Curtis and Srinivasan Seshan and Hari Balakrishnan",
title = "{System Support for Bandwidth Management and Content Adaptation in Internet Applications}",
booktitle = {4th USENIX OSDI},
year = {2000},
month = {September},
address = {San Diego, CA}
}