An MMT based heterogeneous multimedia system using QUIC

Abstract

MPEG has developed a new multimedia transport protocol namely MMT for heterogeneous network transport. Considering the characteristics of both broadcast network and internet, MMT has many advantages compared to traditional transport protocols like MPEG2-TS, RTP and so on. Although MMT has defined a detailed transport protocol for broadcast delivery, the broadband transport protocol of MMT has not been implemented specifically. Nowadays, HTTP is the first choice in most MMT systems. In this paper, we develop a new MMT system using QUIC which is developed by Google as a transport protocol atop UDP as the broadband protocol. This system combines the advantages of MMT and QUIC, thus can achieve better performance than existing MMT systems. We also conduct experiments to compare the performance of the two systems. The experiment results verify that using QUIC in MMT can improve the broadband media transport in MMT system.