Path Switching Schedulers for MPTCP Streaming Video
Shinichi Nagayama, Dirceu Cavendish, Daiki Nobayashi, Takeshi Ikenaga · 2019
Recent developments on multipath transport protocols have allowed video streaming transmissions over multiple interfaces, improving session reliability as well as bandwidth performance. One important aspect of multipath transport is the selection of paths on a packet by packet basis. In particular, path switching may cause head of line blocking effects that may impact video rendering. In this work, we analyze the impact of path switching on multipath video streaming, and propose new path schedulers aimed at reducing path switching. We utilize network performance measures, as well as video quality metrics, to characterize new schedulers' performance improvements and interactions between network and application layers of video streams for various network scenarios.