A method, a non-transitory computer readable medium and a system, the method is for affecting a bit rate of a session, the method may include determining, to introduce a desired change in a bit rate (BR) allocated by a BR allocator for streaming a portion of a first stream that is expected to flow from a source entity to a target entity; wherein the bit rate allocator is expected to set the BR allocated to the streaming of the portion in response to a BR associated with the first stream; modifying a value of the BR associated with the first stream to cause the BR allocator to introduce the desired change in the BR allocated for streaming the portion; and causing the BR allocator module to be aware to the modified value without instructing the BR allocator to introduce the desired change.