Method for congestion control in multiparty conferencing, multipoint control unit, computer program and computer program product

A computer storage medium storing a computer program for a multipoint control unit for congestion control in multiparty conferencing, the computer program comprising computer program code, which, when executed on at least one processor of the multipoint control unit causes the multipoint control unit to perform the method to:

• forward packets of a media stream from the sending part to receiving parts of the multiparty conference, there being at least two receiving parts;
• receive, from each receiving part, a respective receiver feedback report on the reception of the packets;
• establish a sender feedback report comprising a timestamp (TSRX) for a given packet sequence number, the timestamp reflecting a wall-clock time when the packet with the given packet sequence number have been acknowledged by a threshold number of the receiving parts, and provide the established sender feedback report to the sending part.

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