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The Impact of Network and Protocol Heterogeneity on Real-Time Application QoS Panagiotis Papadimitriou, Vassilis Tsaoussidis and Sofia Tsekeridou Demokritos University of Thrace, Electrical Computer Engineering Department E-mail: {ppapadim, vtsaousi, tsekerid}@ee.duth.gr Abstract reliability. Generally, the protocol combines retransmission in conjunction with the sliding window mechanism. In We evaluate the impact of network, and protocol standard TCP, sliding window adjustments are implemented heterogeneity on real-time application performance. We according to the Additive Increase Multiplicative Decrease focus on TCP and UDP supportive role, also in the context (AIMD) algorithm proposed by Chiu and Jain [3]. TCP is of network stability and fairness. We reach several designed to allocate the resources of a network channel conclusions on the specific impact of wireless links, MPEG equally to each application using this channel. However, the traffic friendliness, and TCP version efficiency. Beyond that, demand of competing flows often exceeds the channel we also reach an unexpected result: UDP traffic is bandwidth leading to congestion. Therefore, efficient occasionally worse than TCP traffic when the right congestion control is of high importance in order to avoid performance metric is used.