Two-Level Congestion Control Mechanism (2LCCM) for Information-Centric Networking

As an emerging network architecture, Information-Centric Networking (ICN) is considered to have the potential to meet the new requirements of the Fifth Generation (5G) networks. ICN uses a name decoupled from location to identify content, supports the in-network caching technology, and adopts a receiver-driven model for data transmission. Existing ICN congestion control mechanisms usually first select a nearby replica by opportunistic cache-hits and then insist on adjusting the transmission rate regardless of the congestion state, which cannot fully utilize the characteristics of ICN to improve the performance of data transmission. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a two-level congestion control mechanism, called 2LCCM. It switches the replica location based on a node state table to avoid congestion paths when heavy congestion happens. This 2LCCM mechanism also uses a receiver-driven congestion control algorithm to adjust the request sending rate, in order to avoid link congestion under light congestion. In this paper, the design and implementation of the proposed mechanism are described in detail, and the experimental results show that 2LCCM can effectively reduce the transmission delay when heavy congestion occurs, and the bandwidth-delay product-based congestion control algorithm has better transmission performance compared with a loss-based algorithm.

Low Latency Live Streaming System with Congestion Control

In recent years, the traffic for live streaming on the web has been increasing. The current live streaming methods that use MPEG-DASH or HLS are simple and scale easily to many clients using HTTP. However, they do not take into account the communication between the distributor and the viewer. As a result, latency between the distributor and the viewer is relatively high. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a low latency live streaming system on the web using WebRTC. Since WebRTC uses UDP, it does not have a congestion control mechanism. Depending on the network congestion, it is possible to stream video with quality that exceeds the available bandwidth. Therefore, we propose a system to change the video quality based on the congestion status. The proposed system increases or decreases the video transfer rate by changing the quality of the streamed video depending on the network conditions. We have evaluated the proposed system in a real network environment. As a result, we showed that the delay of the proposed system is smaller than that of the MPEG-DASH system. We also showed that the proposed system can change the quality of the video and switch the transmission rate appropriately according to the network conditions.