Nazila Fough, Fabio Verdicchio, Colin Perkins, and Gorry Fairhurst
Proceedings of the 21st International Packet Video Workshop,
Cairns, Australia,
June 2015.
DOI:10.1109/PCS.2015.7170080
With multimedia and Internet enabled devices being ubiquitous, mechanisms
that ensure multimedia flows do not congest the Internet are crucial
components of multimedia systems that are embraced rather than opposed by
network service providers. The Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) Circuit
Breaker is designed to terminate RTP/UDP flows that cause excessive
congestion in the network. Multimedia users congesting the network have
their flows terminated, as dictated by the RTP circuit breaker congestion
rule. Users who obtain little quality from a multimedia session, and
consume network resources to no avail, should also cease transmission.
This is the mandate of the RTP circuit breaker media usability rule. We
propose an algorithm for this rule, and show that it avoids wasting
network resources on flows that deliver no quality to the user.
Download: fough2015circuitbreaker.pdf