MULTIPATH MANAGEMENT ARCHITECTURE AND PROTOCOLS FOR MOBILE MULTIMEDIA SERVICE WITH MULTIPLE DESCRIPTION CODING

摘要

A wireless communication method includes the steps of an aggregator requesting a first description substream of a multimedia service from a source across a first path, receiving confirmation that a source is available, and receiving a first substream of the service . The method includes determining whether the quality of the first sub-stream is satisfactory, and requesting to receive the multimedia service from at least one additional source from the same source. A method of wireless communication by a source device includes receiving a multimedia service request from an end device aggregator over a first path, transmitting an acknowledgment that a source is available, 1 sub-stream. The method includes receiving a request to transmit a multimedia service over at least one additional path from the same source to the end device aggregator.