Video Streaming Over Wireless: Where TCP is not enough

This demo highlights the limitation of TCP for supporting video streaming over wireless, in the presence of heterogeneous link speeds. The setup mimics a wireless home network with several nodes operating in 802.11 ad-hoc mode. We demonstrate the impact of a file transfer session over a slow link on an ongoing video streaming session over a fast link. TCP leads to approximately equal throughput for both sessions, despite difference in their link speed, causing severe quality degradation of the video stream.

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