Content-aware opportunistic packet scheduling with dynamic routing algorithm for multi-path video streaming over mesh networks

Multi-path video streaming over networks emerges as an important application in multimedia communication. Since the efficiency of multi-path video streaming is closely tied to the packet scheduling strategies, in this paper, we develop a content-aware opportunistic packet scheduling scheme with dynamic routing algorithm, which aims to maximize the reconstructed video quality by considering the content diversity of each video packet. To handle the problem of increased reordering delay, a sliding-window-based policy is then developed to find a balance between the reconstructed video quality and the reordering delay, throughout and packet loss. Our extensive experimental results demonstrate that the proposed packet scheduling scheme significantly outperforms EDPF and achieves a good tradeoff between the reconstructed video quality and the reordering time at the receiver side.