With the explosive growth of video applications over the Internet, many approaches have been proposed to stream video effectively over packet switched, best-effort networks. Many of these approaches use techniques from source and channel coding, or implement transport protocols, or modify system architectures in order to deal with delay, loss, and time-varying nature of the Internet. This paper proposes a framework for streaming video from multiple senders simultaneously to a single receiver in order to achieve higher throughput. In this framework, we propose a receiver-driven protocol to coordinate simultaneous transmissions of video from multiple senders. Our protocol employs two algorithms: rate allocation and packet partition. The rate allocation algorithm determines the sending rate for each sender to minimize the packet loss, while the packet partition algorithm aims to minimize jitter. We will demonstrate simulation results for our proposed scheme.
