A Playout Buffer Efficient Multimedia Streaming Using Multiple TCP Connections
Young Hyun Jung, Hyunghoon Lee, In-Hwa Hong, Yoonsik Choe · 2007
We designed a quality guaranteed multimedia streaming system especially when a server peer has insufficient bandwidth and has to perform both media streaming and con- tent file transmission service simultaneously. To guarantee the bandwidth of a streaming session, the server uses multiple TCP connections in our proposed system. At this time, multiple TCP connections are dynamically created based on estimated play out buffer status of a streaming client. Simulation results show proposed algorithm can enhance streaming quality by success- fully reducing the occurrence of playout buffer underrun.