Congestion control for packet voice by selective packet discarding
- 1 May 1990
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Communications
- Vol. 38 (5), 674-683
- https://doi.org/10.1109/26.54981
Abstract
In order to reduce the time delays as well as multiplexer memory requirements in packet voice systems, a family of congestion control schemes is proposed. They are all based on the selective discarding of packets whose loss will produce the least degradation in quality of the reconstructed voice signal. A mathematical model of the system is analyzed and queue length distributions are derived. These are used to compute performance measures, including mean waiting time and fractional packet loss. Performance curves for some typical systems are presented, and it is shown that the control procedures can achieve significant improvement over uncontrolled systems, reducing the mean waiting time and total packet loss (at transmitting and receiving ends). Congestion control with a resume level is also analyzed, showing that without increasing the fractional packet loss, the mean and variance of the queue can be reduced by selecting an appropriate resume level. The performance improvements are confirmed by the results of some informal subjective testing.<>Keywords
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