SHARING MULTI DESCRIPTION CODED CONTENT UTILIZING PROXIMATE HELPERS

摘要

An apparatus system and method utilizing multi description coding (MDC) and one or more cooperative helper nodes to send streaming content on an uplink to a client over multiple paths. The client receives the multiple descriptions and aggregates them together to ideally obtain the original content at its original quality; however if one or more of the descriptions is lost in the transmission then the entire content can be generated from the remaining one or more descriptions that did arrive successfully.