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

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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
Externally published	Yes
Event	12th ACM Conference on Emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies, ACM CoNEXT 2016 - Irvine, United States Duration: Dec 12 2016 → Dec 15 2016

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

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Other	12th ACM Conference on Emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies, ACM CoNEXT 2016
Country/Territory	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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