Throughput and delay analysis in video streaming over block-fading channels

In a streaming application video packets are required to be decoded and displayed in the order they are transmitted as the transmission continues. This results in per-packet delay constraints, and in the wireless setting the resulting channel can be modeled as a physically degraded fading broadcast channel with as many virtual users as the number of packets. Two important quality of user experience (QoE) metrics, throughput and inter-decoding delay, are considered jointly, and lower and upper bounds on both metrics are presented.