Scalable Performance Signalling and Congestion Avoidance

This book answers a question which came about while the author was work­ ing on his diploma thesis [1]: would it be better to ask for the available bandwidth instead of probing the network (like TCP does)? The diploma thesis was concerned with long-distance musical interaction ("NetMusic"). This is a very peculiar application: only a small amount of bandwidth may be necessary, but timely delivery and reduced loss are very important. Back then, these requirements led to a thorough investigat...