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A Novel Rate Control for Improving the QoE of Multimedia Streaming Service in the Internet Congestion  

Koo, Ja-Hon (광운대학교 전자통신공학과)
Chung, Kwang-Sue (광운대학교 전자통신공학과)
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Journal of KIISE:Information Networking / v.36, no.6, 2009 , pp. 492-504 More about this Journal
Abstract
The delivery of multimedia that efficiently adapts its bit-rate to changing network characteristics and conditions is one of the important challenging tasks in the design of today's real-time multimedia streaming systems such as IPTV, Mobile IPTV and so on. In these work, the primary focus is on network congestion, to improve network stability and inter-protocol fairness. However, these existing works have problems which do not support QoE (Quality of Experience), because they did not consider essential characteristics of contents playback such as the media continuity. In this paper, we propose a novel rate control scheme for improving the QoE of multimedia streaming service in the Internet congestion, called NCAR (Network and Client-Aware Rate control), which is based on network-aware congestion control and client-aware flow control scheme. Network-aware congestion control of the NCAR offers an improving reliability and fairness of multimedia streaming, and reduces the rate oscillation as well as keeping high link utilization. Client-aware flow control of NCAR offers a removing the media discontinuity and a suitable receiver buffer allocation, and provides a good combination of low playback delay. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed schemes.
Keywords
Congestion Control; Flow Control; QoE; Rate Control; NCAR;
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