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In this study, we introduce a congestion control (CC) algorithm for Multipath TCP (MPTCP) streaming services, designed using the principles of dynamical systems theory. The proposed nonlinear On-Off algorithm is intended to handle variable network conditions, maintaining stream consistency at the negotiated video rate despite unknown delay fluctuations. Additionally, the algorithm provides guidelines for buffer size allocation at the receiver. Comparative evaluations against existing MPTCP CC algorithms-LIA, OLIA, BaLIA, and wVegas-were conducted in open network environments using real devices and equipment. The results indicate that the On-Off controller reduces protocol delay, jitter, and Head-of-Line blocking, ensuring high-quality streaming in mobile networks.
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This work has been performed in the framework of a project “Robust control solutions for multi-channel networked flows” no. 2021/41/B/ST7/00108 financed by the National Science Centre, Poland.
This work has been completed while the first author was the Doctoral Candidate in the Interdisciplinary Doctoral School at the Lodz University of Technology, Poland.
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Łuczak, Ł.P., Ignaciuk, P. (2024). An On-Off MPTCP Congestion Control Algorithm for Streaming Services. In: Yilmaz, M., Clarke, P., Riel, A., Messnarz, R., Greiner, C., Peisl, T. (eds) Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement. EuroSPI 2024. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 2180. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-71142-8_14
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