Energy efficient delivery of immersive video centric services

We examine the basic energy tradeoffs between video transport and video processing for services such as multi-view video (MVV) streaming, where multiple media streams are combined and processed to create an immersive and personalized user experience. We analyze and compare the energy efficiency of different architectural options for the location of video processing functions and illustrate how the architecture of choice is influenced by the network topology, the users´ view preferences, and the relative transport-processing energy efficiency. We provide an integer linear programming formulation for the energy efficient functional resource allocation problem, which we show it can be solved as a linear program, and an easily implementable algorithm that generates optimal solutions in polynomial time.