Scalable Video Adaptation in Wireless Home Networks with a Mixture of IPTV and VoD Users

In this paper, we propose a scalable video adaptation mechanism to improve the overall quality of service (QoS) in wireless home networks with a mixture of IPTV and VoD users. Unlike most of the existing studies on video streaming over WLANs, which usually focus on only one type of video streams, either stored videos or live videos, here we consider a mixture of live and stored videos. We make use of the pre-buffering time of VoD users in the rate adaptation for both IPTV and VoD users so as to achieve an overall optimal QoE for all the users. In addition, we employ the standard H.264 SVC and consider a practical multi-rate scenario, where the physical data rate of a wireless user is determined according to its distance to the access point (AP). The corresponding multi-rate multi-queue MAC-layer throughput is analyzed so as to accurately estimate the bandwidth for the video streaming. The ns-2 simulations verify the effectiveness of the proposed scalable video adaptation.