A Multi-Buffer Scheduling Scheme for Video Streaming

Author

Luo, Hongli ; Shyu, Mei-Ling ; Chen, Shu-Ching

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Miami Univ., Coral Gables, FL

fYear

2005

fDate

6-6 July 2005

Firstpage

1218

Lastpage

1221

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a multi-buffer scheduling scheme for streaming video systems. A transmission rate is obtained via a rate control algorithm, which optimally utilizes the network bandwidth and client buffer resources. The server side maintains multiple buffers for packets of different importance levels. It schedules the transmission of each packet based on the source buffer size and playback deadline to reduce the end-to-end distortion. The performance of proposed scheme is evaluated in terms of peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) in the simulations, and the simulation results demonstrate the improvement of the average PSNR values compared with two other scheduling schemes

Keywords

adaptive scheduling; bandwidth allocation; buffer storage; client-server systems; resource allocation; video signal processing; video streaming; bandwidth utilization; client buffer resource; end-to-end distortion; multibuffer scheduling scheme; packet transmission; rate control algorithm; video streaming; Bandwidth; Decoding; Degradation; PSNR; Processor scheduling; Programmable control; Rate-distortion; Resource management; Scheduling algorithm; Streaming media;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia and Expo, 2005. ICME 2005. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Amsterdam

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9331-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICME.2005.1521647

Filename

1521647