vlc DASH over heterogeneous wireless network

[utnho1808]

Hi,
I am implementing DASH over heterogeneous wireless network. I found that the VLC - dash plugin source code they just down load each block from server and append it to byte_stream chain. How to reorder blocks downloaded from multiple wireless network interfaces and append them to byte_stream chain to playout ? Thanks for advance.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

You can't. The TCP/IP stack reorders packet before they reach VLC.

[utnho1808]

I still not understand what you said. For example I have 3 wireless networks wifi 802.11g, 802.11n and LTE. So how can I streaming over these wireless network for bandwidth aggregation ?

[utnho1808]

And I intend to create 3 sockets for 3 wireless network interface for sending byte-range request and download blocks from server ? Is that correct ?

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

I very much doubt that's ever going to work. The extra latency in sending many ranged requests will ruin the theoretical bandwidth gains.

[utnho1808]

So do you have any idea for this problem please let me know ?

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

My advice is to not use range requests for aggregation. I think I was clear in the previous post.

[utnho1808]

So what we can use for this situation ?

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Gee, that's for you to figure out.