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http://dx.doi.org/10.5909/JBE.2009.14.1.44

Efficient Video Streaming Mechanism through a New Rate Adaptation Scheme  

Lee, Sun-Hun (Department of Electronics Engineering, Kwangwoon University)
Chung, Kwang-Sue (Department of Electronics Engineering, Kwangwoon University)
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Journal of Broadcast Engineering / v.14, no.1, 2009 , pp. 44-58 More about this Journal
Abstract
To provide efficient video streaming service over a wireless networks, the rate adaptation scheme should be applied at the low layer and the quality adaptation scheme should be considered at the high layer. In this paper, we propose a new cross-layer design which includes rate adaptation scheme at the MAC/PHY layers and quality control at the application layer. Proposed rate adaptation scheme improves the wireless channel utilization by transmitting the consecutive frames and selects optimal transmission mode by calculating the goodputs for each transmission mode. Based on selected transmission mode, the rate adaptation scheme calculates the rate limits and informs that to the application layer. Then the video streaming application utilizes this rate limits to adjust the quality of the video stream. Through performance evaluations, we prove that our cross-layer design improves the quality of the wireless video streaming service by means of the proposed rate adaptation scheme.
Keywords
Wireless video streaming; Rate adaptation scheme; Cross-layer;
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