Congestion Control for Streaming Media

• H. Balakrishnan, H. S. Rahul, and S. Seshan. An Integrated Congestion Management Architecture for Internet Hosts. In Proc. ACM SIGCOMM, pages 175--187, Sep 1999.
• H. Balakrishnan and S. Seshan. The Congestion Manager. Internet Engineering Task Force, Nov 2000. Internet Draft draft-balakrishnan-cm-3.txt. Work in progress, expires May 2001.
• D. Bansal and H. Balakrishnan. Binomial Congestion Control Algorithms. In Proceedings INFOCOM 2001 (to appear), April 2001.
• S. Floyd, M. Handley, J. Padhye, and J. Widmer. Equation-Based Congestion Control for Unicast Applications. Proc. ACM SIGCOMM, pages 43--54, September 2000.
• Rhee, I., Ozdemir, V. and Yi, Y. TEAR: TCP Emulation at Receivers - Flow Control for Multimedia Streaming. NCSU Technical Report, April 2000.
• V. Jacobson. Congestion Avoidance and Control. In Proc. ACM SIGCOMM, pages 314--329, Aug 1988.
• J. Padhye, J. Kurose, D. Towsley, and R. Koodli. A Model Based TCP-friendly Rate Control Protocol. In Proc. NOSSDAV, July 1999.
• Wai-tian Tan and Avideh Zakhor. Real-Time Internet Video Using Error Resilient Scalable Compression and Tcp-Friendly Transport Protocol. ACM MM '99.

Quality Adaptation

• R. Rejaie, M. Handley, and D. Estrin. Quality Adaptation for Unicast Audio and Video. In Proc. ACM SIGCOMM, September 1999.
• R. Rejaie, M. Handley, and D. Estrin. RAP: An End-to-end Rate-based Congestion Control Mechanism for Realtime Streams in the Internet. In Proc. IEEE INFOCOM, volume 3, pages 1337--1345, March 1999.
• R. Rejaie, M. Handley, and D. Estrin. Layered Quality Adaptation for Internet Video Streaming. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Communications (JSAC), Winter 2000. Special issue on Internet QOS.
• S. McCanne. Scalable Compression and Transmission of Internet Multicast Video. PhD thesis, Univ. of California at Berkeley, 1996.

RFCs

• M. Allman and V. Paxson. TCP Congestion ControlInternet Engineering Task Force, April 1999. RFC 2581
• H. Schulzrinne, S. Casner, R. Frederick, and V. Jacobson. RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time Applications. IETF, Jan 1996. RFC 1889.
• H. Schulzrinne, A. Rao, and R. Lanphier. Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP). IETF, April 1998. RFC 2326.

Error Resilience

• Andres Albanese, Johannes Blomer, Jeff Edmonds, Michael Luby. Priority Encoding Transmission
• C. Leicher. Hierarchical encoding of mpeg sequences using priority encoding transmission (pet, 1994).
• Benjamin W. Wah, Xiao Su and Dong Lin. A Survey of Error-Concealment Schemes for Real-Time Audio and Video Transmissions over the Internet
• J.-C. Bolot, Thierry Turletti. Experience with Control Mechanisms for Packet Video in the Internet
• J.-C. Bolot, Thierry Turletti. Adaptive Error Control For Packet Video In The Internet (1996). ICIP '96
• Steven Gringeri, Roman Egorov, Khaled Shuaib, Arianne Lewis and Bert Basch. Robust Compression and Transmission of MPEG-4 Video. ACM MM '99.
• W. Heinzelman. Application-Specific Protocol Architectures for Wireless Networks. PhD Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, June 2000.
• C. Papadopoulos and G. Parulkar, Retransmission-based error control for continuous media applications, Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video, pp. 5--12, 1996.
• I. Rhee. Error control techniques for interactive low bitrate video transmission over the internet. In Proc. ACM SIGCOMM, September 1998.

MPEG-Related Links

• MPEG Home Page
• Rob Koenen. Overview of the MPEG-4 Standard WG11 (MPEG). ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11. October 2000.