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Improving transmission quality of MPEG video stream by SCTP multi-streaming and differential RED mechanisms

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SCTP is an emerging transmission protocol with the advanced advantage of supports multi-homing and multi-streaming, which can provide high availability and increase reliability. To improve the performance of MPEG video over Internet, the present study modifies the multi-streaming mechanisms of SCTP, which enable SCTP to use network resources efficiently and provide a differential transmission priority for the encoding frame types of MPEG video stream. Furthermore, to further enhance the decodable frame ratio, the present study also modifies the queue management mechanism of RED which enable the modified RED to provide differential stream protection for MPEG video stream. The simulation results presented in this study confirmed that the proposed scheme can improve the performance of MPEG video stream.

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  1. Department of Computer and Communication, Kun Shan University, Tainan, Taiwan

    Rung-Shiang Cheng

  2. Department of Electrical Engineering, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

    Cheng-Han Lin

  3. Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan

    Jiann-Liang Chen

  4. Institute of Computer Science & Information Engineering and Department of Electronic Engineering, National Ilan University, I-Lan, Taiwan

    Han-Chieh Chao

  5. Department of Electrical Engineering, National Dong Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan

    Han-Chieh Chao

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Cheng, RS., Lin, CH., Chen, JL. et al. Improving transmission quality of MPEG video stream by SCTP multi-streaming and differential RED mechanisms. J Supercomput 62, 68–83 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-011-0624-2

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