Two Sample Applications

In this section, we will describe two real applications that can leverage the QoS enhancements offered by OverQoS. The first application shows how RealServer, a streaming media application can improve the signal quality of multimedia streams by using OverQoS to preferentially recover important packets at the expense of less important ones without using any additional network bandwidth. The second application is Counterstrike, a popular online multi-player game with a user base of over $1$ million players [1]. For this application, we show how OverQoS can smooth out losses and enable players to play the game under high-loss environments.