Mobile Multimedia Communications. 7th International ICST Conference, MOBIMEDIA 2011, Cagliari, Italy, September 5-7, 2011, Revised Selected Papers

Research Article

Mobile Multipath Cooperative Network for Real-Time Streaming

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-30419-4_13,
        author={Viji Raveendran and Phanikumar Bhamidipati and Xun Luo and Xiaolong Huang},
        title={Mobile Multipath Cooperative Network for Real-Time Streaming},
        proceedings={Mobile Multimedia Communications. 7th International ICST Conference, MOBIMEDIA 2011, Cagliari, Italy, September 5-7, 2011, Revised Selected Papers},
        proceedings_a={MOBIMEDIA},
        year={2012},
        month={5},
        keywords={Multiple description coding mobile multimedia service network architecture overlay network quality of experience real-time streaming},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-642-30419-4_13}
    }
    
  • Viji Raveendran
    Phanikumar Bhamidipati
    Xun Luo
    Xiaolong Huang
    Year: 2012
    Mobile Multipath Cooperative Network for Real-Time Streaming
    MOBIMEDIA
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-30419-4_13
Viji Raveendran1,*, Phanikumar Bhamidipati1,*, Xun Luo1,*, Xiaolong Huang1,*
  • 1: Qualcomm Inc.
*Contact email: vraveend@qualcomm.com, pbhamidi@qualcomm.com, xunl@qualcomm.com, xhuang@qualcomm.com

Abstract

Access links are often times the bottlenecks of wireless wide area networks (WWAN). The prevalent use of multimedia applications on mobile devices introduces an ever increasing traffic load on WWAN access links, leading to traffic congestion and unsatisfactory user experiences. In this paper, we introduce a mobile multipath cooperative network. In the system, multiple paths are dynamically established among cooperative devices over WWAN and WLAN so that multiple descriptions of a multimedia stream can be transported over distinct end-to-end paths between two mobiles. As a result, the capacities of multiple wireless access links can be utilized to enhance quality of experience of a multimedia application. We also introduce a MDC rate adaptation algorithm that jointly adapts the source coding rates among multiple paths. Our lab experiments show that real-time streaming with multiple description coding benefits significantly from the proposed cooperative network and subsequently enhance the quality of user experience for multimedia applications.