Modeling and analysis of stochastic systems
Modeling and analysis of stochastic systems
Multi-path continuous media streaming: what are the benefits?
Performance Evaluation
Dynamic Multi-Path Communication for Video Traffic
HICSS '97 Proceedings of the 30th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences: Software Technology and Architecture - Volume 1
Multi-path streaming: Optimization of load distribution
Performance Evaluation - Performance 2005
Fast heuristics for multi-path selection for multiple description encoded video streaming
ICME '03 Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Multimedia and Expo - Volume 2
Multipath live streaming via TCP: scheme, performance and benefits
CoNEXT '07 Proceedings of the 2007 ACM CoNEXT conference
Multiple sender distributed video streaming
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
Path diversity for enhanced media streaming
IEEE Communications Magazine
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Multipath streaming protocols have recently attracted much attention because they provide an effective means to provide high-quality streaming over the Internet. Most existing multipath streaming schemes also apply forward error correction (FEC) encoding in the stream so as to provide high-quality streaming of prestored or live media content. However, the problem of how to intelligently split the FEC-encoded stream among multiple available paths has not been fully addressed. Most previous work focused on protocol design or heuristic-based engineering approaches. Exact analysis turns out to be hard, as it involves heavy combinatorics computation. In this article, we develop an analytical model and use asymptotic analysis to address the problem of optimal load distribution. Using asymptotic approximations, we propose a closed-form formulation for the optimal load distribution problem. We then develop interesting properties of the optimal solution based on majorization, interchanging argument, and optimization techniques. These results are surprisingly simple yet insightful. We further demonstrate through simulation that our asymptotic solution works quite well in practice.