Title: Evaluation of traffic dispersion methods for synchronous distributed multimedia data transmission on multiple links for group of mobile hosts

Authors: Yoshia Saito, Susumu Ishihara, Hiroshi Mineno, Tadanori Mizuno, Takashi Watanabe

Addresses: Faculty of Software and Information Science, Iwate Prefectural University, 152-52 Sugo, Takizawa, Iwate 020-0193, Japan. ' Graduate School of Science and Technology, Shizuoka University, 3-5-1 Johoku, Naka-ku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka 432-8011, Japan. ' Faculty of Informatics, Department of Computer Science, Shizuoka University, 3-5-1 Johoku, Naka-ku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka 432-8011, Japan. ' Graduate School of Science and Technology, Shizuoka University, 3-5-1 Johoku, Naka-ku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka 432-8011, Japan. ' Graduate School of Science and Technology, Shizuoka University, 3-5-1 Johoku, Naka-ku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka 432-8011, Japan

Abstract: In this paper, we propose a multimedia data transmission method, Multitrack, that achieves high-speed and efficient data transmission between multiple mobile hosts and the internet. Users of the hosts in a cluster can see a high quality streaming video by sharing the received multimedia data cooperatively with the other hosts. In Multitrack, it is important to disperse traffic according to the quality of multiple links in order to offer a stable multimedia data transmission. We also propose an effective traffic dispersion method for this environment, and evaluate this method and other basic methods by simulations.

Keywords: multimedia communications; mobile computing; multiple links; traffic dispersion; data transmission; internet; streaming video; m-computing; synchronous transmission; distributed transmission.

DOI: 10.1504/IJASS.2010.031556

International Journal of Applied Systemic Studies, 2010 Vol.3 No.1, pp.89 - 101

Published online: 10 Feb 2010 *

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