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http://dx.doi.org/10.7840/kics.2015.40.7.1330

Combination of Token Bucket and AMP Schemes to Solve Buffer Underflow and Overflow of Video Streaming in Wireless Communication  

Lee, Hyun-no (Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, College of Information Technology, Kangwon National University)
Kim, Dong-hoi (Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, College of Information Technology, Kangwon National University)
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The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences / v.40, no.7, 2015 , pp. 1330-1338 More about this Journal
Abstract
In wireless communication network, the amount of packet data for the video streaming in the playout buffer of the receiver is changed with time according to network condition. If the amount of packet data is less than a specific buffer amount, the buffer underflow problem is generated. On the contrary, if the amount of packet data is more than a given buffer amount, the buffer overflow problem is occurred. When the playout of the video streaming is processed, these buffer underflow and overflow problems cause stop and skip phenomenons and then provide the discontinuity of playout. Therefore, to solve the buffer underflow and overflow problems of the video streaming in wireless communication network, This paper analyzes the combined effect of Token Bucket scheme, which controls the bursty traffic, and AMP(Adaptive Media Playout) scheme, which adaptively changes the playout speed of receiver. Through simulation, we found that the combination of Token Bucket and AMP schemes provides the superiority in terms of the occurrence number of buffer underflow and overflow, the stop duration time and the number of removed frames generated by underflow and overflow, and PSNR.
Keywords
Video streaming; Adaptive Media Playout; Token Bucket; Underflow; Overflow; PSNR;
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