CONGESTION CONTROL FOR A MULTIMEDIA SESSION

摘要

Congestion control is achieved by assigning flow identifiers to media flows (40, 42) sharing source and destination addresses. Performance measurements between a sender (20) and a receiver (30) and/or routers (10, 12) are performed and used to detect a congestion state for a flow route in a transport network (1). A media flow (40), a media rate to adapt to combat the congestion state, is identified based on the assigned flow identifiers and mapping information defining a mapping between flow routes and flow identifiers.