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Qos-driven SCTP-based multimedia delivery over heterogeneous wireless networks

以服务质量驱动和基于流控制传输协议的异构无线网络高效流媒体传输策略

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Stream Control Transport Protocol (SCTP)-based handover is supposedly the best suit for current mobile Internet users. However, prevalent SCTP-based handover solutions mostly evaluate candidate networks by a function of multiple attributes such as available bandwidth, delay, etc., which tend to vary often in burst and might cause the instability of handover decisions. Moreover, the SCTP congestion control strategy leads to sudden degradation of users’ quality of experience for multimedia streaming service because of abrupt and frequent strong fluctuations in the transmission rate. In this paper, we propose a novel QoS-driven SCTPbased handover solution (SCTP-QD) appropriate for heterogeneous wireless multimedia transmission. A new network service and transport layer QoS-aware model is designed to help SCTP-QD accurately analyze the service stability and data transmission capacity for each path. A proper QoS-driven handover decision model is introduced in SCTP-QD in order to improve the SCTP handover efficiency while reducing unnecessary handoffs and fail-over probability. A proposal is finally addressed to help SCTP-QD avoid the slow start phase whenever handover occurs. The simulation results show that SCTP-QD outperforms existing solutions in terms of data delivery performance.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, 100876, China

    YuanLong Cao, ChangQiao Xu, JianFeng Guan & HongKe Zhang

  2. Institute of Sensing Technology and Business, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Wuxi, 214028, China

    ChangQiao Xu

  3. National Engineering Laboratory for Next Generation Internet Interconnection Devices, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, 100044, China

    HongKe Zhang

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Cao, Y., Xu, C., Guan, J. et al. Qos-driven SCTP-based multimedia delivery over heterogeneous wireless networks. Sci. China Inf. Sci. 57, 1–10 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11432-014-5171-z

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