QoE-Driven Energy-Aware Multipath Content Delivery Approach for MPTCP-Based Mobile Phones

• Published in: 中国通信（英文版） Vol. 14; no. 2; pp. 90 - 103
• Main Author: Yuanlong Cao Shengyang Chen Qinghua Liu Yi Zuo Hao Wang Minghe Huang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: School of Software, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang 330022, China%Performance Engineering Laboratory, Dublin City University, Ireland%Jiangxi innovation funds management center for small and medium-sized enterprises, Nanchang 330046, China 01.02.2017
• Subjects: traffic offloading; multipath TCP; energy consumption; video transport

Mobile phones equipped with multiple wireless interfaces can increase their goodput performance by making use of concurrent transmissions over multiple paths, enabled by the Multipath TCP （MPTCP）. However, utilizing MPTCP for data delivery may generally result in higher energy consumption, while the...