Content-Aware Concurrent Multipath Transfer for High-Definition Video Streaming over Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 710-723

  Wu, Jiyan ^a   Yuen, Chau ^a   Wang, Ming ^b   Chen, Junliang ^b  

^a SINGAPORE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN   (Singapore)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

concurrent multipath transfer; Content awareness; heterogeneous wireless networks; high definition video streaming; Markov decision process; multihoming; stream control transmission protocol

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CONCURRENCY CONTROL; FEEDBACK; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; QUALITY CONTROL; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; VIDEO STREAMING; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

CONCURRENT MULTIPATH TRANSFERS; CONTENT-AWARENESS; HETEROGENEOUS WIRELESS NETWORK; HIGH DEFINITION VIDEO; MARKOV DECISION PROCESSES; MULTI-HOMING; STREAM CONTROL TRANSMISSION PROTOCOLS;

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EID: 84962464458     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2015.2416736     Document Type: Article

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