NDLI: Improving multipath live streaming performance with Markov Decision Processes

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Vinh Bui Weiping Zhu
Copyright Year	2007
Description	Author affiliation: New South Wales Univ., Sydney (Vinh Bui; Weiping Zhu)
Abstract	Recent studies have demonstrated the benefit of multipath live contents streaming in the Internet best-effort environment. In this paper, we propose an approach to enhance performance of the multipath streaming by using Markov decision processes. We formulate the multipath live streaming problem with the minimum distortion rate objective as a Markov decision process (MDP) and solve the formulated MDP on the fly using a computational effective algorithm namely OPI i.e. Online Policy Iteration. We demonstrate the superior performance of the proposed approach against the classical schemes including weighted round robin (WRR) and join the shortest queue (JSQ) through intensive simulation using Ns-2. The approach proposed is transport protocol independent, which implies that it can be used friendly with both UDP and TCP streaming.
Starting Page	580
Ending Page	585
File Size	172379
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424409761
DOI	10.1109/ISCIT.2007.4392085
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2007-10-17
Publisher Place	Australia
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Transport protocols Computational modeling Rate distortion theory Bandwidth Streaming media Decoding Internet Australia IP networks Round robin
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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