User Quality of Experience-aware Multimedia Streaming over Wireless Home Area Network

For multimedia streaming over wireless networks, there is a trade-off between the capacity of the wireless links and the end-user perceived-quality, which can be affected by the compression scheme used, content characteristics and adaptation algorithm (if any). In this paper, this trade-off is inves...

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Published in2007 IEEE 65th Vehicular Technology Conference - VTC2007-Spring pp. 644 - 648
Main Authors Muntean, G.-M., Cranley, N.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.04.2007
Subjects
Delay
Encoding
Jitter
MPEG 4 Standard
Multimedia systems
Performance loss
Streaming media
Throughput
Transform coding
Wireless networks
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Summary:For multimedia streaming over wireless networks, there is a trade-off between the capacity of the wireless links and the end-user perceived-quality, which can be affected by the compression scheme used, content characteristics and adaptation algorithm (if any). In this paper, this trade-off is investigated for streaming various motion content multimedia over an IEEE 802.11b-based wireless-home area network using the quality-oriented adaptation scheme (QOAS). QOAS performance is compared to that of a non-adaptive scheme when using MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 encoding in terms of average end-user perceived quality, number of streaming sessions concurrently supported, loss rate, delay, jitter and total throughput. Simulation results show that by using QOAS and MPEG-4 encoded streams a much higher number of concurrent streams are supported at an average quality above "good" level on the ITU-T five-point quality scale in comparison with other situations. In this case all the other streaming performance parameters were also significantly better.
ISBN:9781424402663
1424402662
ISSN:1550-2252
DOI:10.1109/VETECS.2007.143