TCP-friendly CMT-based multimedia distribution over multi-homed wireless networks

Abstract

In this paper, we propose TCP-friendly CMT, a novel TCP-friendly Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)-based Concurrent Multipath Transfer (CMT) solution necessitating the following aims: (i) fairness to TCP flows, (ii) load sharing, and (iii) improve multimedia delivery performance. To satisfy the first requirement, a Weighted Moving congestion window (WM-cwnd) based Additive Increase and Multiplicative Decrease (AIMD)-enhanced congestion control mechanism is designed to make TCP-friendly CMT preserve fairness to TCP flows. A newly WM-cwnd-based data distribution algorithm is further introduced in TCP-friendly CMT to make proper load sharing and improve multimedia delivery performance. Finally, a proposal for saving energy is introduced. The simulation results show how the proposed TCP-friendly CMT solution improves the data delivery performance, as well as users' quality of experience for multimedia streaming service while still remaining fair to the competing TCP flows.