Concurrent multipath transmission combining forward error correction and path interleaving for video streaming

  • Authors:

  • Ming-Fong Tsai;Naveen K. Chilamkurti;Sherali Zeadally;Alexey Vinel

  • Affiliations:

  • Institute of Computer Communication Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan;Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia;Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of the District of Columbia, Washington, DC 20008, USA;St.-Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation, Russian Academy of Sciences, 199178 St.-Petersburg, 14 line, 39, Russia

  • Venue:
  • Computer Communications
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Video streaming is a popular application on next generation networks (NGNs). However, video streaming over NGNs has many challenges due to the high bit error rates of these networks. Forward error correction (FEC) is often applied to improve the quality of video streaming. However, continuous lost packets decrease the recovery performance of FEC protection in NGNs. To disperse continuous lost packets to different FEC blocks, we propose a concurrent multipath transmission that combines FEC with path interleaving. Our proposed control scheme adaptively adjusts the FEC block length and concurrently sends data interleaved over multiple paths. Experimental results with our approach show improved packet loss and signal to noise ratio performance.