The Principles of Low-Latency Media Centric Network Architectures

With the move to Internet Protocol (IP) networks, the desire to produce low-latency, high throughput networks has increased in recent years. But low-latency and high throughput do not necessarily go hand-in-hand. In fact there is somewhat of an inverse relationship between the two, despite the fact that latency plays a critical role in TCP/IP throughput. Microbursts, buffer/queue management, and poor software design all play significant roles in increasing latency. In this paper, we will discuss the key design principles for the creation of low-latency, high throughput IP networks for real-time media centric applications.

Published

2013-10

Content type

Original Research

Keywords

IP, low-latency, media, synchronization, multicast, network, workflows, monitoring

DOI

10.5594/M001491

ISBN

978-1-61482-953-9