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arXiv:1406.6772 (cs)
[Submitted on 26 Jun 2014 (v1), last revised 9 Nov 2014 (this version, v2)]

Title:MSPlayer: Multi-Source and multi-Path LeverAged YoutubER

Authors:Yung-Chih Chen, Don Towsley, Ramin Khalili
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Abstract:Online video streaming through mobile devices has become extremely popular nowadays. YouTube, for example, reported that the percentage of its traffic streaming to mobile devices has soared from 6% to more than 40% over the past two years. Moreover, people are constantly seeking to stream high quality video for better experience while often suffering from limited bandwidth. Thanks to the rapid deployment of content delivery networks (CDNs), popular videos are now replicated at different sites, and users can stream videos from close-by locations with low latencies. As mobile devices nowadays are equipped with multiple wireless interfaces (e.g., WiFi and 3G/4G), aggregating bandwidth for high definition video streaming has become possible.
We propose a client-based video streaming solution, MSPlayer, that takes advantage of multiple video sources as well as multiple network paths through different interfaces. MSPlayer reduces start-up latency and provides high quality video streaming and robust data transport in mobile scenarios. We experimentally demonstrate our solution on a testbed and through the YouTube video service.
Comments: accepted to ACM CoNEXT'14
Subjects: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI); Multimedia (cs.MM)
ACM classes: C.2; C.2.1; C.4
Cite as: arXiv:1406.6772 [cs.NI]
  (or arXiv:1406.6772v2 [cs.NI] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1406.6772
Related DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2674005.2675007

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From: Yung-Chih Chen [view email]
[v1] Thu, 26 Jun 2014 05:34:19 UTC (102 KB)
[v2] Sun, 9 Nov 2014 19:26:38 UTC (104 KB)
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