Disclosed is a system and method for estimating retransmission timeout
(RTO) in a real-time streaming applications over the Internet between a server
and a client. Accordingly, the present invention employs retransmission timeout
(RTO) in NACK-based applications to support multiple retransmission attempts per
lost packet, wherein the RTO is estimated by an actual around-trip delay (RTT)
and a smooth inter-packet delay variance.
