2nd International ICST Conference on Communications and Networking in China

Research Article

A Transport Layer Seamless Handover for Streaming Media in Wireless Overlapping Networks

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/CHINACOM.2007.4469571,
        author={Jingyu Wang and Jianxin Liao and Xiaomin Zhu and Jing Wang and Cong Liu and Zhaowen Lin},
        title={A Transport Layer Seamless Handover for Streaming Media in Wireless Overlapping Networks},
        proceedings={2nd International ICST Conference on Communications and Networking in China},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={CHINACOM},
        year={2008},
        month={3},
        keywords={MDLC  Multi-path  SCTP  transport layer handover  wireless networks},
        doi={10.1109/CHINACOM.2007.4469571}
    }
    
  • Jingyu Wang
    Jianxin Liao
    Xiaomin Zhu
    Jing Wang
    Cong Liu
    Zhaowen Lin
    Year: 2008
    A Transport Layer Seamless Handover for Streaming Media in Wireless Overlapping Networks
    CHINACOM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/CHINACOM.2007.4469571
Jingyu Wang1,*, Jianxin Liao1, Xiaomin Zhu1, Jing Wang1, Cong Liu1, Zhaowen Lin1
  • 1: State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications P.O. Box 296, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, P.R. China, P.C.: 100876
*Contact email: wangjingyu@ebupt.com

Abstract

Multimedia applications, such as streaming media, are bandwidth adaptive but have stringent jitter, delay and packet loss requirements. Especially during the user movement, packets may get lost and congested in the re-routing caused by handovers. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end Multi-path Adaptive Transmission Rate Adjustment Mechanism (MATRAM) for transport layer seamless handover for streaming media delivery in heterogeneous wireless networks with different amounts of available bandwidth from cell to cell. In addition, to support the proposed MATRAM, a new concurrent multi-path Stream Control Transmission Protocol (cmpSCTP) is proposed by us. The analysis verifies that the proposed MATRAM can efficiently optimize the handover process and enhance user-perceived video quality during handover.1Keywords—wireless networks, transport layer handover, Multi-path, SCTP, MDLC.