IEICE Trans - Nearly Equal Delay Path Set Configuration (NEED-PC) for Multipath Delay Jitter Reduction

Nearly Equal Delay Path Set Configuration (NEED-PC) for Multipath Delay Jitter Reduction

Takafumi OKUYAMA  Kenta YASUKAWA  Katsunori YAMAOKA

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E91-B   No.3   pp.722-732
Publication Date: 2008/03/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
DOI: 10.1093/ietcom/e91-b.3.722
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Network
Keyword:
QoS,  multipath,  delay jitter,  delay-sensitive live media streaming,

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Summary:
Delay jitter degrades the quality of delay-sensitive live media streaming. We investigate the use of multipath transmission with two paths to reduce delay jitter and, in this paper, propose a nearly equal delay path set configuration (NEED-PC) scheme that further improves the performance of the multipath delay jitter reduction method for delay-sensitive live media streaming. The NEED-PC scheme configures a pair of a maximally node-disjoint paths that have nearly equal path delays and satisfy a given delay constraint. The results of our simulation experiments show that path sets configured by the NEED-PC scheme exhibit better delay jitter reduction characteristics than a conventional scheme that chooses the shortest path as the primary path. We evaluate the performance of path sets configured by the NEED-PC scheme and find that the NEED-PC scheme reduces delay jitter when it is applied to a multipath delay jitter reduction method. We also investigate the trade-off between reduced delay jitter and the increased traffic load incurred by applying multipath transmission to more flows. The results show that the NEED-PC scheme is practically effective even if the amount of additional redundant traffic caused by using multipath transmission is taken into account.