VIDalizer: An energy efficient video streamer

Recent years have witnessed a significant rise in the number, duration and variety of video contents, which contribute to the bulk of internet traffic. With increase in smartphone and tablet users, watching videos on mobile devices has become one of its most popular use cases. These devices live on limited battery energy which is still a major bottleneck and a source of user dissatisfaction during video playback. In this paper we introduce an intermediate framework called VIDalizer for power efficient video delivery to smartphones and tablets. This almost transparent to the user, battery aware framework takes away some of the video processing overhead from the device and intelligently tunes its parameters customized for the mobile device while delivering the video using a novel transport protocol. Our preliminary results show that this framework can significantly reduce energy consumption up to 45%-55% of a mobile device without compromising user experience.