A Simulation Based Performance Evaluation of PRTP

• PRTP is proposed to address the need of a transport service that is more suitable forapplications with soft real-time requirements, e.g., video broadcasting. It is an extensionfor partial reliability to TCP. The main idea behind PRTP is to exploit the fact thatmany soft real-time applications tolerate a limited amount of packet loss. In particular,PRTP enables an application to trade some of the reliability offered by TCP for improvedthroughput and interarrival jitter. This paper describes the design of PRTP andgives a detailed description of a simulation based performance evaluation. The performanceevaluation involved the performance of PRTP compared to TCP in long- as wellas in short-lived connections and showed that PRTP probably would give significantimprovements in performance, both in terms of throughput and interarrival jitter, for awide range of applications. The performance evaluation also suggested that PRTP is notTCP-friendly and altogether fair against competing flows and thus is not suitable for usein an environment where the main reason for packet loss is congestion, e.g., in a fixedInternet environment. We believe, however, that PRTP could be a viable alternative forwireless applications in error prone environments.

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TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Elektroteknik och elektronik -- Telekommunikation (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering -- Telecommunications (hsv//eng)

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simulation

PRTP

partial reliability

retransmission based

stationary

transient

throughput

jitter

fairness

TCP-friendly

Computer Science

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