Throughput and Delay Analysis in Video Streaming over Block-Fading Channels
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Author(s)
Cocco, G
Gunduz, D
Ibars Casas, C
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
We study video streaming over a slow fading wireless channel. In a streaming application video packets are required to be decoded and displayed in the order they are transmitted as the transmission goes on. This results in per-packet delay constraints, and the resulting channel can be modeled as a physically degraded fading broadcast channel with as many virtual users as the number of packets. In this paper we study two important quality of user experience (QoE) metrics, namely throughput and inter-decoding delay. We introduce several transmission schemes, and compare their throughput and maximum interdecoding delay performances. We also introduce a genie-aided scheme, which provides theoretical bounds on the achievable performance. We observe that adapting the transmission rate at the packet level, i.e., periodically dropping a subset of the packets, leads to a good tradeoff between the throughput and the maximum inter-decoding delay. We also show that an approach based on initial buffering leads to an asymptotically vanishing packet loss rate at the expense of a relatively large initial delay. For this scheme we derive a condition on the buffering time that leads to throughput maximization.
Date Issued
2015-10-26
Date Acceptance
2015-10-26
Citation
IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2015, 63 (12), pp.5206-5217
ISSN
1558-0857
Publisher
IEEE
Start Page
5206
End Page
5217
Journal / Book Title
IEEE Transactions on Communications
Volume
63
Issue
12
Copyright Statement
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Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Telecommunications
Engineering
Block fading channel
delay-constrained transmission
interdecoding delay
live video streaming
COMPRESSED VIDEO
SCALABLE VIDEO
PACKET LOSS
TRANSMISSION
WIRELESS
OPTIMIZATION
INFORMATION
VISIBILITY
0906 Electrical And Electronic Engineering
1005 Communications Technologies
Publication Status
Published