Title
MSPlayer: Multi-Source and multi-Path LeverAged YoutubER.
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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1145/2674005.2675007
CoNEXT
Keywords
DocType
Volume
lte,http
Journal
abs/1406.6772
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-3279-8
2
0.39
References 
Authors
20
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yung-Chih Chen141339.89
Don Towsley2186931951.05
Ramin Khalili343025.98