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Loss Tolerant Bandwidth Aggregation for Multihomed Video Streaming over Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

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Bandwidth aggregation is a key research issue in integrating heterogeneous wireless networks, since it can substantially increase the throughput and reliability for enhancing streaming video quality. However, the burst loss in the unreliable wireless channels is a severely challenging problem which significantly degrades the effectiveness of bandwidth aggregation. Previous studies mainly address the critical problem by reactively increasing the forward error correction (FEC) redundancy. In this paper, we propose a loss tolerant bandwidth aggregation approach (LTBA), which proactively leverages the channel diversity in heterogeneous wireless networks to overcome the burst loss. First, we allocate the FEC packets according to the ‘loss-free’ bandwidth of each wireless network to the multihomed client. Second, we deliberately insert intervals between the FEC packets’ departures while still respecting the delay constraint. The proposed LTBA is able to reduce the consecutive packet loss under burst loss assumption. We carry out analysis to prove that the proposed LTBA outperforms the existing ‘back-to-back’ transmission schemes based on Gilbert loss model and continuous time Markov chain. We conduct the performance evaluation in Exata and emulation results show that LTBA outperforms the existing approaches in improving the video quality in terms of PSNR (Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio).

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  1. We choose the JSVM in convenience for the source code integration as both Exata and JSVM are developed using C++. However, the H.264/AVC JM [25] software is developed using C language.

  2. Related studies [15, 28] conclude that the one-way delay should not exceed 250 ms in order to achieve acceptable video quality.

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This research is supported by the National Grand Fundamental Research 973 Program of China under Grant Nos. 2011CB302506, 2013CB329102, 2012CB315802; National Key Technology Research and Development Program of China “Research on the mobile community cultural service aggregation supporting technology” (Grant No. 2012BAH94F02); Novel Mobile Service Control Network Architecture and Key Technologies (2010ZX03004-001-01); National High-tech R&D Program of China (863 Program) under Grant No. 2013AA102301; National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 61003067, 61171102, 61001118, 61132001; Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University (Grant No. NCET-11-0592); Project of New Generation Broadband Wireless Network under Grant No. 2011ZX03002-002-01; Beijing Nova Program under Grant No. 2008B50. The authors would like to express their sincere gratitude for the anonymous reviewers who provide the suggestions to improve the paper quality.

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    Jiyan Wu, Yanlei Shang, Bo Cheng, Budan Wu & Junliang Chen

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Wu, J., Shang, Y., Cheng, B. et al. Loss Tolerant Bandwidth Aggregation for Multihomed Video Streaming over Heterogeneous Wireless Networks. Wireless Pers Commun 75, 1265–1282 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-013-1422-3

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