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Advances in video camera and wireless communication technology have enabled a variety of video applications over the Internet. However, meeting these applications’ quality-of-service requirements poses significant challenges to the underlying network and has attracted significant attention from the networking research community. In particular, wireless multipath video transmission has been proposed as a viable alternative to deliver adequate performance to Internet video applications. This survey provides a thorough review of the current state-of-the-art in multipath video transmission focusing on IoT applications. We introduce a taxonomy to classify existing approaches based on their application-specific mechanisms (e.g., video coding techniques) as well as networking-specific techniques. In addition to describing existing approaches in light of the proposed taxonomy, we also discuss directions for future work.

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Funding was provided by Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (88881.310442/2018-01), Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (307819/2017-5, 309886/2019-8), Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (2018/23062-5), and Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (E-26/010.002248/2019).

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    Fabiano Bhering, Diego Passos, Luiz Satoru Ochi & Célio Albuquerque

  2. Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais, Leopoldina, Brazil

    Fabiano Bhering

  3. Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

    Diego Passos

  4. University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, USA

    Katia Obraczka

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Bhering, F., Passos, D., Ochi, L.S. et al. Wireless multipath video transmission: when IoT video applications meet networking—a survey. Multimedia Systems 28, 831–850 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00530-021-00885-4

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