Congestion-optimized scheduling of video over wireless ad hoc networks

Author

Setton, Eric ; Zhu, Xiaoqing ; Girod, Bernd

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Stanford Univ., CA, USA

fYear

2005

fDate

23-26 May 2005

Firstpage

3531

Abstract

We analyze the benefits of information sharing between the application layer and the transport layer, for streaming video encoded at several different qualities, in a mobile wireless network. The application relies on statistics collected at the transport layer and on a video distortion model to select the highest quality that can be supported by the network. At the transport layer, congestion-distortion optimized scheduling is performed to select packets which maximize the received video quality. Experiments performed over a simulated multi-hop wireless network, with H.264 encoded video, show benefits of the proposed approach.

Keywords

ad hoc networks; code standards; mobile radio; optimisation; quality of service; rate distortion theory; scheduling; statistics; telecommunication congestion control; video coding; video streaming; H.264 encoded video; application layer; congestion-distortion optimized scheduling; information sharing; mobile wireless network; multi-hop wireless network; quality of service; statistics; streaming video; transport layer; video distortion model; wireless ad hoc networks; Ad hoc networks; Decoding; Information analysis; Information systems; Laboratories; Spread spectrum communication; Streaming media; Video compression; Video sharing; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 2005. ISCAS 2005. IEEE International Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8834-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCAS.2005.1465391

Filename

1465391