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Femtocells have emerged as a promising solution for increasing network capacity to cope with the exponential growth of mobile video traffic. However, the randomness of wireless channel and cross-tier interference may cause frequent interruption or fluctuation of video playback, which is challenging for wireless video streaming. In this paper, we consider a femtocell scalable video streaming system...
In this paper, we introduce new solutions to handle real-time video traffic, such as video conferencing, in the future software-defined radio access networks. The real-time video is well-known for its high peak-to-mean rate ratio. This is a major challenge for traffic engineering and radio resource allocation, especially in small cell radio networks. We first propose an online method to dynamically...
This work focuses on scheduling multiple video flows on the downlink of a wireless system based on Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA), such as the LTE/LTE-A standard. We propose a joint multi-user scheduling and multi-user rate adaptation strategy by considering Scalable Video Coding (SVC) which facilitates the truncation of bit streams, thus allowing graceful degradation of video...
This paper proposed an optimized packet scheduling algorithm for live peer-to-peer streaming system, where network coding technique is extended to improve the efficiency in bandwidth utilization. We identify a problem of undesirable non-innovative packet transmission due to the latency of buffer-map update among peers, which, with many previous proposed techniques, yields to bandwidth inefficiencies...
A large number of studies in the fields of consumer research, psychology and sociology have shown that individual user decisions influence people's satisfaction and likeability in the context of service consumption. However, so far this user-related aspect has been neglected in the context of QoE. To address this issue, we conducted three empirical user studies in which the participants were able...
Consumer acceptance is of great interest in the adoption of novel multimedia products and services. A number of factors can greatly influence the customer experience during a video session, impacting the acceptability of the product or service. Factors such as the Technical Quality (TQ) which covers the technical aspects of the signal quality can be controlled from the network provider. On the other...
Quality of Experience (QoE) has emerged as the key performance metric to evaluate end-user service quality perception. We propose a system for video and web QoE assessment in LTE networks that we call QoE Analytics system. We build the proposed system and run it on a LTE network and successfully estimates QoE metrics per UE in real-time by inspecting user plane data on S1 interface without any QoE...
Downlink throughput is the most widely used and accepted Quality of Service (QoS) related feature within the networking community, specially in the operational field. Current quality monitoring and reporting systems as well as quality benchmarking campaigns use the Average Downlink Throughput (ADT) as metric to assess the performance of the network. For example, flow-based monitoring systems normally...
The interactivity in multimedia services concerns the input/output process of the user with the system, as well as its cooperativity. It is an important element that affects the overall Quality of Experience (QoE), which may even mask the impact of the quality level of the (audio and visual) signal itself on the overall user perception. This work is a preliminary study aimed at evaluating the weight...
Video streaming is the most popular application in today's mobile Internet and its growing demands and popularity put more and more load on cellular networks. In a recent trend to mitigate the cellular load, followed by many providers, users are offered to offload mobile connections to WiFi hotspots, which are predominately deployed in urban environments. In this work, we conduct a simulative performance...
In the video streaming arena, and especially within the wireless transmission domain, measuring users' quality of experience (QoE) has become a pressing issue for it offers several benefits to both the service provider and the end user. However, available measurement techniques that adopt a full reference model (FR) are impractical in real-time transmission scenarios since they require the original...
In this paper, a first approach for evaluating the Quality of Experience (QoE) for IoT (Internet of Things) applications is presented. Firstly, a layered IoT architecture is analysed to understand which QoE influence factors have to be considered in relevant application scenarios. Secondly, we introduce the concept of Multimedia IoT (MIoT) and define a layered QoE model aimed at evaluating and combining...
Diverse scheduling strategies have been designed for video streaming traffic ranging from Quality of Service (QoS) aware scheduling rules to more complex video quality based scheduling strategies. In this work, we analyze and compare some of the well known scheduling rules for video streaming traffic. Our main goal is to compare and analyze different classes of scheduling strategies (QoS and video...
Dynamic adaptive HTTP (DASH) based streaming is steadily becoming the most popular online video streaming technique. DASH streaming provides seamless playback by adapting the video quality to the network conditions during the video playback. A DASH server supports adaptive streaming by hosting multiple representations of the video and each representation is divided into small segments of equal playback...
In this paper, we focus on the bitrate adaptation issue of HTTP live video streaming. We first present a systematic approach that enables the client to choose the best video quality when deciding video bitrate for next several segments. After that, based on the concept of JND (Just Noticeable Difference), an adaptation method is proposed to meet the tradeoff between the requirements of buffer stability...
This paper proposes an approach for the evaluation of DASH-based video transmission from a server located in a Content Delivery Network (CDN) to multiple LTE users. The approach is based on utilizing an analytical model for the HTTP/TCP transmission in the wired/core link, and simulation traces for the packet transmission in the wireless/access link. The core and access link are separately considered...
Long Term Evolution (LTE) has been standardized at the 3GPP since 2008 and targets the delivery of high data rate services with strict quality-of-service (QoS) requirements. It is now the fastest ever growing mobile technology and is gradually becoming the mainstream radio access technology used in cellular networks. The latest video coding standard, High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), achieves higher...
Advances in computing hardware and novel multimedia applications have urged the development of handheld mobile devices such as smartphones and PDAs. Video content is increasingly consumed daily in mobile devices as well as in first response emergency services. With this significant increase of cloud-based video delivery, one of the challenges is how to efficiently transmit the bulky videos to resource-constrained...
With the rapid growth of the Internet, traditional broadcasters are under severe pressure from their competitors. In order to enhance their competitiveness, broadcasters need to provide not only traditional linear broadcast services but also new tri-play services. Traditional terrestrial broadcast systems need to be upgraded to next generation broadcast wireless (NGB-W) systems, where terrestrial...
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