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Enhancing video-on-demand playout over multiple heterogeneous access networks

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CCNC'10: Proceedings of the 7th IEEE conference on Consumer communications and networking conference

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Published: 09 January 2010 Publication History

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Multimedia streaming is increasing in popularity and has become one of the dominating services on the Internet today. Even though user devices are often equipped with multiple network interfaces and in reach of several access networks at the same time, media streams are normally communicated over only one of the available Internet connections.

In this paper, we explore the challenges and potential benefits of using multiple access networks simultaneously. Exploiting HTTP's capability of handling requests for specific byte ranges of a file, we present the implementation of a lightweight, application-layer, on-demand streaming service that requires no changes to existing servers and infrastructure.

Based on real-world experiments with a multihomed host, we investigate the potential performance gains of video-on-demand playout. We achieve a bandwidth aggregation efficiency of 90% when downloading over 3 heterogeneous access networks in parallel. In addition, we analyze the effect of file segmentation on the buffer requirements and the startup latency.

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Riiser HEndestad TVigmostad PGriwodz CHalvorsen P(2012)Video streaming using a location-based bandwidth-lookup service for bitrate planningACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications10.1145/2240136.22401378:3(1-19)Online publication date: 6-Aug-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2240136.2240137
Evensen KKupka TKaspar DHalvorsen PGriwodz CBulterman DHefeeda M(2010)Quality-adaptive scheduling for live streaming over multiple access networksProceedings of the 20th international workshop on Network and operating systems support for digital audio and video10.1145/1806565.1806573(21-26)Online publication date: 2-Jun-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1806565.1806573

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Riiser HEndestad TVigmostad PGriwodz CHalvorsen P(2012)Video streaming using a location-based bandwidth-lookup service for bitrate planningACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications10.1145/2240136.22401378:3(1-19)Online publication date: 6-Aug-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2240136.2240137
Evensen KKupka TKaspar DHalvorsen PGriwodz CBulterman DHefeeda M(2010)Quality-adaptive scheduling for live streaming over multiple access networksProceedings of the 20th international workshop on Network and operating systems support for digital audio and video10.1145/1806565.1806573(21-26)Online publication date: 2-Jun-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1806565.1806573

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