Multimedia streaming using multiple TCP connections

摘要: In recent years, multimedia applications over the Internet become increasingly popular. However, packet loss, delay, and time-varying bandwidth of have remained major problems for streaming applications. As such, a number approaches, including network infrastructure protocol, source channel coding, been proposed to either overcome or alleviate these drawbacks Internet. this article, we propose MultiTCP system, receiver-driven, TCP-based system Our algorithm aims at providing resilience against short term insufficient by using multiple TCP connections same application. enables application achieve control desired sending rate during congested periods, which cannot be achieved traditional TCP. Finally, our is implemented layer, hence, no kernel modification necessary. We analyze present simulation experimental results demonstrate its advantages single-TCP-based approach.