Google Faculty Award 2014

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Title:Congestion Control for Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC)
Principal investigator: S. Mascolo
Collaborators: Gaetano Carlucci, Luca De Cicco

This research aims at designing a congestion control algorithm for real-time communication within the WebRTC framework to enable video conference among Web browsers.
A list of the main results follows:

Standardization
  • S. Holmer, H. Lundin, G. Carlucci, L. De Cicco, and S. Mascolo
    A Google Congestion Control Algorithm for Real-Time Communication
    IETF draft RMCAT wg, draft-ietf-rmcat-gcc-02, July 2016 (Web: Link)
  • S. Holmer, H. Lundin, G. Carlucci, L. De Cicco, and S. Mascolo
    A Google Congestion Control Algorithm for Real-Time Communication
    IETF draft RMCAT wg, draft-ietf-rmcat-gcc-01, Oct 2015 (Web: Link)
  • S. Holmer, H. Lundin, G. Carlucci, L. De Cicco, and S. Mascolo
    A Google Congestion Control Algorithm for Real-Time Communication
    IETF draft RMCAT wg, draft-ietf-rmcat-gcc-00, Jun 2015 (Web: Link)
  • H. Lundin, S. Holmer, H. Alvestrand, L. De Cicco, and S. Mascolo
    A Google Congestion Control Algorithm for Real-Time Communication
    IETF draft RMCAT wg, draft-alvestrand-rmcat-congestion-02, Feb 2014 (Web: Link)
Publications
  • G. Carlucci, L. De Cicco, and S. Mascolo
    Controlling Queuing Delays for Real-Time Communication: Interplay of E2E and AQM Algorithms
    ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, July 2016 (PDF)
  • G. Carlucci, L. De Cicco, S. Holmer, and S. Mascolo
    Making Google Congestion Control robust over Wi-Fi networks using packet grouping
    ACM, IRTF & ISOC , Applied Networking Research Workshop 2016, Berlin, Germany, July 2016 (PDF)
  • G. Carlucci, L. De Cicco, C. Ilharco, and S. Mascolo
    Congestion Control for Real-time Communications: a comparison between NADA and GCC
    24th IEEE Mediterranean Conference on Control & Automation, Athens, Greece, June 2016 (PDF)
  • G. Carlucci, L. De Cicco, S. Holmer, and S. Mascolo
    Analysis and Design of the Google Congestion Control for Web Real-time Communication (WebRTC)
    Proc. ACM Mmsys 2016, Klagenfurt, Austria, May 2016 (PDF)
  • Gaetano Carlucci, Luca De Cicco,Saverio Mascolo
    Modelling and Control for Web Real-Time Communication
    Proc. of 53rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Los Angeles, California, USA, December 2014 (PDF)
  • L. De Cicco, G. Carlucci, and S. Mascolo
    Understanding the Dynamic Behaviour of the Google Congestion Control for RTCWeb
    Packet Video Workshop, San Jose, CA, USA, 2013 (PDF) (Slides:PDF)
  • L. De Cicco, G. Carlucci, and S. Mascolo
    Experimental Investigation of the Google Congestion Control for Real-Time Flows
    ACM SIGCOMM 2013 Workshop on Future Human-Centric Multimedia Networking, Hong Kong, China, August 2013 (PDF)
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