Energy-Efficient QoE-Driven Strategies for Context-Aware RAT Selection

• Published in: IEEE transactions on green communications and networking Vol. 4; no. 3; pp. 858 - 872
• Main Authors: Bouali, Faouzi, Moessner, Klaus, Fitch, Michael
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Piscataway IEEE 01.09.2020; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Benchmark testing; Clients; Context; context awareness; Energy consumption; handover; Measurement; Optimization; QoE-driven; Quality assessment; Quality of experience; Radio access networks; Radio access technologies; Signaling; Strategy; Streaming media; Video transmission

This paper formulates an optimization problem that maximizes an aggregate utility that captures the "in-context" suitability of available radio access technologies (RATs) to support adaptive video streaming subject to a single-homing constraint. To efficiently solve the considered problem,...