Dynamic control of receiver buffers in mobile video streaming systems

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 995-1008

  Tabrizi, Farid Molazem ^a   Peters, Joseph ^b   Hefeeda, Mohamed ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

energy optimization; mobile TV; Mobile video streaming; quality optimization; wireless video multicasting

Indexed keywords

ENERGY OPTIMIZATION; MOBILE TV; MOBILE VIDEO STREAMING; QUALITY OPTIMIZATION; WIRELESS VIDEO;

BASE STATIONS; ENERGY CONSERVATION; MOBILE DEVICES; OPTIMIZATION; VIDEO STREAMING;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84875669740     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2012.56     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. "Global IPTV Market Analysis (2006-2010)," http://www. rncos.com/Report/IM063.htm, 2006.
2. "Craig Wireless to Sell Canadian Spectrum for $80m," http://www.cbc.ca/fp/story/2010/03/26/2729450.html. 2010.
3. "AT&T Sells Wireless Spectrum in Southeast to Clearwire Corporation," http://www.att.com/gen/press-room?pid= 4800&cdvn= news&newsarticleid=23428, 2007.
4. "ATSC Mobile DTV Standard," http://www.openmobilevideo. com/about-mobile-dtv/standards, 2009.
5. IEEE 802.16: Broadband Wireless Metropolitan Area Network, http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/802.16.html, 2009.
6. S. Parkvall, E. Englund, M. Lundevall, and J. Torsner, "Evolving 3G Mobile Systems: Broadband and Broadcast Services in WCDMA," IEEE Comm. Magazine, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 30-36, Feb. 2006.
7. M. Kornfeld and G. May, "DVB-H and IP Datacast-Broadcast to Handheld Devices," IEEE Trans. Broadcasting, vol. 53, no. 1, pp. 161-170, Mar. 2007.
8. C. Hsu and M. Hefeeda, "On Statistical Multiplexing of Variable-Bit-Rate Video Streams in Mobile Systems," Proc. 17th ACM Int'l Conf. Multimedia (Multimedia '09), pp. 411-420, Oct. 2009.
9. Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB); DVB-H Implementation Guidelines. European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) Standard EN 102 377, Ver. 1.3.1, May 2007.
10. X. Yang, Y. Song, T. Owens, J. Cosmas, and T. Itagaki, "Performance Analysis of Time Slicing in DVB-H," Proc. Joint IST Workshop Mobile Future and Symp. Trends in Comm. (SympoTIC '04), pp. 183-186, Oct. 2004. (Pubitemid 40456904)
11. C. Hsu and M. Hefeeda, "Time Slicing in Mobile TV Broadcast Networks with Arbitrary Channel Bit Rates," Proc. IEEE INFOCOM, pp. 2231-2239, Apr. 2009.
12. M. Hefeeda, C. Hsu, and Y. Liu, "Testbed and Experiments for Mobile TV (DVB-H) Networks," Proc. 16th ACM Int'l Conf. Multimedia (Multimedia '08), Oct. 2008.
13. "Nokia Announces World's First Commercial Solution for Managing DVB-H Broadcast Services," http://press.nokia.com/2005/10/31/nokia- announces-worlds-first-commercial-solutionfor-managing-dvb-h-broadcast-services, 2005.
14. Private Communication with Nokia's Engineers Managing Mobile TV Base Stations, 2010.
15. F. Molazem Tabrizi, J. Peters, and M. Hefeeda, "Adaptive Transmission of Variable-Bit-Rate Video Streams to Mobile Devices," Proc. 10th Int'l IFIP TC 6 Conf. Networking (NETWORKING '11), 2011.
16. W. Feng and J. Rexford, "Performance Evaluation of Smoothing Algorithms for Transmitting Prerecorded Variable-Bit-Rate Video," IEEE Trans. Multimedia, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 302-312, Sept. 1999.
17. T. Lakshman, A. Ortega, and A. Reibman, "VBR Video: Tradeoffs and Potentials," Proc. IEEE, vol. 86, no. 5, pp. 952-973, May 1998.
18. M. Grossglauser, S. Keshav, and D.N.C. Tse, "RCBR: A Simple and Efficient Service for Multiple Time-Scale Traffic," IEEE/ACM Trans. Networking, vol. 5, no. 6, pp. 741-755, Dec. 1997. (Pubitemid 127768484)
19. M. Rezaei, "Video Streaming over DVB-H," Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting Standards, F. Luo, ed., pp. 109-131, Springer, Nov. 2009.
20. P. Thiran, J. yves Le Boudec, and F. Worm, "Network Calculus Applied to Optimal Multimedia Smoothing," Proc. IEEE INFOCOM, pp. 1474-1483, Apr. 2001. (Pubitemid 32485794)
21. J. Zhang and J. Hui, "Applying Traffic Smoothing Techniques for Quality of Service Control in VBR Video Transmissions," Computer Comm., vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 375-389, 1998. (Pubitemid 128393956)
22. J.D. Salehi, S.-L. Zhang, J. Kurose, and D. Towsley, "Supporting Stored Video: Reducing Rate Variability and End-to-End Resource Requirements through Optimal Smoothing," IEEE/ACM Trans. Networking, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 397-410, Aug. 1998. (Pubitemid 128747926)
23. J. Lin, R. Chang, J. Ho, and F. Lai, "FOS: A Funnel-Based Approach for Optimal Online Traffic Smoothing of Live Video," IEEE Trans. Multimedia, vol. 8, no. 5, pp. 996-1004, Oct. 2006. (Pubitemid 44523113)
24. J. Ribas-Corbera, P. Chou, and S. Regunathan, "A Generalized Hypothetical Reference Decoder for H.264/AVC," IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 13, no. 7, pp. 674-687, July 2003.
25. H. Lai, J. Lee, and L. Chen, "A Monotonic-Decreasing Rate Scheduler for Variable-Bit-Rate Video Streaming," IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 221-231, Feb. 2005. (Pubitemid 40265946)
26. P. Camarda, G. Tommaso, and D. Striccoli, "A Smoothing Algorithm for Time Slicing DVB-H Video Transmission with Bandwidth Constraints," Proc. ACM Int'l Mobile Multimedia Comm. Conf. (MobiMedia '06), Sept. 2006.
27. M. Rezaei, I. Bouazizi, and M. Gabbouj, "Joint Video Coding and Statistical Multiplexing for Broadcasting over DVB-H Channels," IEEE Trans. Multimedia, vol. 10, no. 7, pp. 1455-1464, Dec. 2008.
28. Z. He and D. Wu, "Linear Rate Control and Optimum Statistical Multiplexing for H.264 Video Broadcast," IEEE Trans. Multimedia, vol. 10, no. 7, pp. 1237-1249, Nov. 2008.
29. M. Jacobs, J. Barbarien, S. Tondeur, R.V. de Walle, T. Paridaens, and P. Schelkens, "Statistical Multiplexing Using SVC," Proc. IEEE Int'l Symp. Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting (BMSB '08), pp. 1-6, Mar. 2008.
30. "FLO Technology Overview," http://www.mediaflo.com/news/pdf/ tech-overview.pdf, 2009.
31. M. Hefeeda and C. Hsu, "On Burst Transmission Scheduling in Mobile TV Broadcast Networks," IEEE/ACM Trans. Networking, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 610-623, Apr. 2010.
32. T. Pering, Y. Agarwal, R. Gupta, and R. Want, "CoolSpots: Reducing the Power Consumption of Wireless Mobile Devices with Multiple Radio Interfaces," Proc. ACM MobiSys, pp. 220-232, 2006. (Pubitemid 44440800)
33. A. Carroll and G. Heiser, "An Analysis of Power Consumption in a Smartphone," Proc. Usenix Technical Conf., pp. 1-14, June 2010.
34. S. Chandra, "Wireless Network Interface Energy Consumption: Implications for Popular Streaming Formats," Multimedia Systems, vol. 9, pp. 185-201, Aug. 2003.
35. "DiviCatch RF-T/H Transport Stream Analyzer," http://www. enensys.com, 2008.
36. "dvbSAM DVB-H Solution for Analysis, Monitoring, and Measurement," http://www.decontis.com, 2008.