MP-DASH: Adaptive video streaming over preference-aware multipath

Bo Han; Feng Qian; Lusheng Ji; Vijay Gopalakrishnan

doi:10.1145/2999572.2999606

MP-DASH: Adaptive video streaming over preference-aware multipath

Bo Han, Feng Qian, Lusheng Ji, Vijay Gopalakrishnan

Computer Science and Engineering

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Abstract

Compared with using only a single wireless path such as WiFi, leveraging multipath (e.g., WiFi and cellular) can dramatically improve users' quality of experience (QoE) for mobile video streaming. However, Multipath TCP (MPTCP), the de-facto multipath solution, lacks the support to prioritize one path over another. When applied to video streaming, it may cause undesired network usage such as substantial over-utilization of the metered cellular link. In this paper, we propose MP-DASH, a multipath framework for video streaming with the awareness of network interface preferences from users. The basic idea behind MP-DASH is to strategically schedule video chunks' delivery and thus satisfy user preferences. MP-DASH can work with a wide range of off-the-shelf video rate adaptation algorithms with very small changes. Our extensive field studies at 33 locations in three U.S. states suggest that MP-DASH is very effective: it can reduce cellular usage by up to 99% and radio energy consumption by up to 85% with negligible degradation of QoE, compared with off-the-shelf MPTCP.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	CoNEXT 2016 - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages	129-143
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450342926
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2999572.2999606
State	Published - Dec 6 2016
Event	12th ACM Conference on Emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies, ACM CoNEXT 2016 - Irvine, United States Duration: Dec 12 2016 → Dec 15 2016

Publication series

Name	CoNEXT 2016 - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies

Other

Other	12th ACM Conference on Emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies, ACM CoNEXT 2016
Country	United States
City	Irvine
Period	12/12/16 → 12/15/16

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
We thank Rittwik Jana, Emir Halepovic, and the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments and suggestions, and in particular Adrian Perrig for shepherding the paper. We thank Yeon-sup Lim, Xiufeng Xie, Xinyu Zhang, and Darijo Raca for their help to implement MP-DASH. Feng Qian's research was supported in part by National Science Foundation Grant CNS-1566331.

Keywords

Adaptive video streaming
Cellular
DASH
Multipath TCP
Preference
WiFi

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Han, B., Qian, F., Ji, L., & Gopalakrishnan, V. (2016). MP-DASH: Adaptive video streaming over preference-aware multipath. In CoNEXT 2016 - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (pp. 129-143). (CoNEXT 2016 - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/2999572.2999606

MP-DASH : Adaptive video streaming over preference-aware multipath. / Han, Bo; Qian, Feng; Ji, Lusheng; Gopalakrishnan, Vijay.

CoNEXT 2016 - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2016. p. 129-143 (CoNEXT 2016 - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Han, B, Qian, F, Ji, L & Gopalakrishnan, V 2016, MP-DASH: Adaptive video streaming over preference-aware multipath. in CoNEXT 2016 - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies. CoNEXT 2016 - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, pp. 129-143, 12th ACM Conference on Emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies, ACM CoNEXT 2016, Irvine, United States, 12/12/16. https://doi.org/10.1145/2999572.2999606

Han B, Qian F, Ji L, Gopalakrishnan V. MP-DASH: Adaptive video streaming over preference-aware multipath. In CoNEXT 2016 - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. 2016. p. 129-143. (CoNEXT 2016 - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies). https://doi.org/10.1145/2999572.2999606

Han, Bo ; Qian, Feng ; Ji, Lusheng ; Gopalakrishnan, Vijay. / MP-DASH : Adaptive video streaming over preference-aware multipath. CoNEXT 2016 - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2016. pp. 129-143 (CoNEXT 2016 - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies).

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