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A BBR-based congestion control for delay-sensitive real-time applications

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The current User Datagram Protocol (UDP) causes unfairness and bufferbloats to delay sensitive applications due to the uncontrolled congestion and monopolization of available bandwidth.This causes call drops and frequent communication/connection loss in delay sensitive applications such as VoIP. We present a Responsive Control Protocol using Bottleneck Bandwidth and Round trip propagation time (RCP-BBR) as an alternate solution to UDP. RCP-BBR achieves low latency, high throughput, and low call drops ratio by efficiently customizing Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Bottleneck Bandwidth and Round-trip propagation time (TCP-BBR) congestion control. We conducted comprehensive experiments, and the results show that proposed protocol achieves better throughput over UDP in stable networks. Moreover, in unstable and long-distanced networks, RCP-BBR achieved smaller queues in deep buffers and lower delays as compared to UDP, which performed poorly by keeping delays above the call drop threshold.

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  1. National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan

    Sayed Najmuddin, Muhammad Asim & Kashif Munir

  2. Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK

    Thar Baker

  3. Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China

    Zehua Guo

  4. Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

    Rajiv Ranjan

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Najmuddin, S., Asim, M., Munir, K. et al. A BBR-based congestion control for delay-sensitive real-time applications. Computing 102, 2541–2563 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00607-020-00829-2

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