Transmission Control for the Future Media Internet

of the available bandwidth. In 2010 files and still images will only account for 10--20% of
the entire data transmitted in the Internet.

Traditional media transport with HTTP/TCP and initial approaches to media streaming via RTP/UDP
are not at all sufficient anymore. The Future Media Internet will choke on the flood of media data.
This threat can only be handled by more bandwidth, more efficient media codecs and
-- last but not at all least -- an appropriate media transport. The latter is what this talk addresses.

We will introduce an optimized error coding for media streaming which provides several
new features dedicated to media transport:

* A guaranteed delivery time (indespensable for mass market end devices)
* A tolerated residual loss rate (correcting only what needs to be corrected)
* A minimum overhead (following the dynamic Shannon bound as closely as possible).

Besides interesting and already published results this new approach deeply influences a
wide field of actual research: Network Coding, Multicast Routing, Link-2-Link vs. End-2-End
Transport and many more.

The talk will introduce the concepts and the current results and give a short
demonstration of the implementation that has been done at the Tellecommunications Lab.