Congestion Control

Specifications

• RFC 8083: Multimedia Congestion Control: Circuit Breakers for Unicast RTP Sessions
• draft-ietf-rmcat-cc-requirements: Congestion Control Requirements for Interactive Real-Time Media
• draft-ietf-rmcat-eval-criteria: Evaluating Congestion Control for Interactive Real-time Media
• draft-ietf-rmcat-eval-test: Test Cases for Evaluating RMCAT Proposals
• draft-ietf-rmcat-rtp-cc-feedback: RTCP Feedback for Congestion Control in Interactive Multimedia Conferences
• draft-dt-rmcat-feedback-message: Schemes for Multimedia Congestion Control in RTC
• draft-holmer-rmcat-transport-wide-cc-extensions: RTP Extensions for Transport-wide Congestion Control

Sender side bitrate estimation algorithms

• draft-ietf-rmcat-gcc: A Google Congestion Control Algorithm for Real-Time Communication
• draft-ietf-rmcat-nada: NADA: A Unified Congestion Control Scheme for Real-Time Media
• draft-ietf-rmcat-scream-cc: Self-Clocked Rate Adaptation for Multimedia

Receiver side bitrate estimation algorithms

• draft-alvestrand-rmcat-remb: RTCP message for Receiver Estimated Maximum Bitrate

Other bitrate estimation algorithms

• draft-ietf-rmcat-coupled-cc: Coupled congestion control for RTP media
• draft-ietf-rmcat-sbd: Shared Bottleneck Detection for Coupled Congestion Control for RTP Media

Resources

• Schemes for Multimedia Congestion Control in RTC (by callstats.io)
• Bandwidth Estimation in WebRTC (and the new Sender Side BWE)
• Chrome/Firefox/Licode REMB issue