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DISTORTION-AWARE CONCURRENT MULTIPATH TRANSFER
FOR MOBILE VIDEO STREAMING IN HETEROGENEOUS
WIRELESS NETWORKS
ABSTRACT
The massive proliferation of wireless infrastructures with complementary characteristics
prompts the bandwidth aggregation for Concurrent Multipath Transfer (CMT) over
heterogeneous access networks. Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is the standard
transport-layer solution to enable CMT in multihomed communication environments. However,
delivering high-quality streaming video with the existing CMT solutions still remains
problematic due to the stringent quality of service (QoS) requirements and path asymmetry in
heterogeneous wireless networks. In this paper, we advance the state of the art by introducing
video distortion into the decision process of multipath data transfer. The proposed distortion-
aware concurrent multipath transfer (CMT-DA) solution includes three phases: 1) per-path status
estimation and congestion control; 2) quality-optimal video flow rate allocation; 3) delay and
loss controlled data retransmission. The term ‘flow rate allocation’ indicates dynamically picking
appropriate access networks and assigning the transmission rates. We analytically formulate the
data distribution over multiple communication paths to minimize the end-to-end video distortion
and derive the solution based on the utility maximization theory. The performance of the
proposed CMT-DA is evaluated through extensive semi-physical emulations in Exata involving
H.264 video streaming. Experimental results show that CMT-DA outperforms the reference
schemes in terms of video peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR), goodput, and inter-packet delay

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Distortion-Aware Concurrent Multipath Transfer for Mobile Video Streaming in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

  • 1. DISTORTION-AWARE CONCURRENT MULTIPATH TRANSFER FOR MOBILE VIDEO STREAMING IN HETEROGENEOUS WIRELESS NETWORKS ABSTRACT The massive proliferation of wireless infrastructures with complementary characteristics prompts the bandwidth aggregation for Concurrent Multipath Transfer (CMT) over heterogeneous access networks. Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is the standard transport-layer solution to enable CMT in multihomed communication environments. However, delivering high-quality streaming video with the existing CMT solutions still remains problematic due to the stringent quality of service (QoS) requirements and path asymmetry in heterogeneous wireless networks. In this paper, we advance the state of the art by introducing video distortion into the decision process of multipath data transfer. The proposed distortion- aware concurrent multipath transfer (CMT-DA) solution includes three phases: 1) per-path status estimation and congestion control; 2) quality-optimal video flow rate allocation; 3) delay and loss controlled data retransmission. The term ‘flow rate allocation’ indicates dynamically picking appropriate access networks and assigning the transmission rates. We analytically formulate the data distribution over multiple communication paths to minimize the end-to-end video distortion and derive the solution based on the utility maximization theory. The performance of the proposed CMT-DA is evaluated through extensive semi-physical emulations in Exata involving H.264 video streaming. Experimental results show that CMT-DA outperforms the reference schemes in terms of video peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR), goodput, and inter-packet delay