End-to-end traffic management and adaptive multi-hop multimedia transmission

A system for managing traffic over a channel of a network connecting a sender end system and a receiver end system, the traffic including a plurality of packets, comprising:

• means for modeling the channel as a queue having an associated queue occupancy;
• means for maintaining, in the sender end system, a series of times when packets are sent and a series of times when feedback messaged are received by the sender system in response to receiving the feedback messages in the sender end system indicating the packets were received by the receiver end system;
• means for updating a time series of samples for a service time experienced by each packet sent based on the series of times when the packets are sent and the feedback messages are received;
• means for predicting a most recent queue occupancy based on the time series of samples;
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• means for sending the next packet according to the predicted queue occupancy.