A performance comparison of hose rate controller approaches for P2P-TV applications

摘要

The goal of this paper is to investigate rate control mechanisms for unstructured P2P-TV applications adopting UDP as transport protocol. We focus on a novel class of Hose Rate Controllers (HRC), which aim at regulating the aggregate upload rate of each peer. This choice is motivated by the peculiar P2P-TV needs: video content is not elastic but it is subject to real-time constraints, so that the epidemic chunk exchange mechanism is much more bursty for P2P-TV than file sharing applications. Furthermore, the peer up-link (e.g., ADSL/Cable) is typically the shared for flows in real scenarios. We compare two classes of aggregate rate control mechanisms: Delay Based (DB) less-than-best-effort mechanisms, which aim at tightly controlling the chunk transfer delay, and loss-based Additive Increase Multiplicative Decrease (AIMD) rate controllers, which are designed to be more aggressive and can compete with other AIMD congestion controls, i.e., TCP.