Streaming SVC coded video over DCCP

Abstract

The Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) is designed to be used in place of the User Datagram Protocol (UDP), which is the most popular protocol used for media delivery. The Congestion Control Identifier 3 (CCID3) of DCCP is tailored for video streaming applications. In this paper, we stream video, which is coded with the Scalable Video Coding (SVC) extension of H.264/AVC, over the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and DCCP (using CCID3) in various methods, and try to come up with a solution such that the quality of the received video is maximized while both the number and the length of buffering events are minimized.