| Publisher | Politecnico di Bari | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Format | 347.9KB PDF | Date added | 06 Mar 2007 |
| Topics | VoIP - IP Telephony, TCP - IP | ||
| Downloads | 32 | ||
The explosive growth of VoIP traffic poses a potential challenge to the stability of the Internet that, up to now, has been guaranteed by the TCP congestion control. This paper investigates how Skype behaves in the presence of time-varying available bandwidth in order to discover if some sort of congestion control mechanism is implemented at the application layer to match the network available bandwidth and cope with congestion. The paper has found that Skype flows are somewhat elastic, i.e. they employ some sort of congestion control when sharing the bandwidth with unresponsive flows, but are inelastic in the presence of classic TCP responsive flows, which provokes extreme unfair use of the available bandwidth in this case.
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