TFRC for Congestion Control in Wired Environment
P. Sreenivasa Rao1, M. Janani2, P. Chenna Reddy3
1Sri P. Sreenivasa Rao, Dept. of IT, JNTUH College of Engineering, Jagtial, India,
2M. Janani, Dept. of CSE,JNTUA College of Engineering, Pulivendula, India,
3Dr.P.Chenna Reddy, Dept. of CSE,JNTUA College of Engineering, Pulivendula, India
Manuscript received on November 25, 2013. | Revised Manuscript Received on December 15, 2013. | Manuscript published on December 20, 2013. | PP: 13-15 | Volume-2, Issue-1, December 2013. | Retrieval Number: A0377122113/2013©BEIESP
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Abstract: The applications for which Internet is used has changed over the years. File transfer and e-mail are no longer the dominant applications of Internet. Multimedia streaming is one of the applications which is generating lot of revenues in Internet market. For these type of applications congestion has to be controlled. TCP has congestion control mechanisms but has lot of overhead associated with it making it not suitable for multimedia applications. UDP has no congestion control mechanisms and can lead to instability in the network. TCP Friendly Rate Control (TFRC) is a new protocol designed by Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). It has congestion control mechanisms which enable it to be fair with TCP and prevents UDP from using its share of the bandwidth. In this paper performance of TFRC is compared with TCP and UDP in wired environment.
Keywords: TFRC, TCP, UDP, ns-2.