TY - GEN
T1 - Rate Control for Streaming Video over Wireless
AU - Chen, Minghua
AU - Zakhor, Avideh
PY - 2004/3
Y1 - 2004/3
N2 - Rate control is an important issue in video streaming applications for both wired and wireless networks. A widely accepted rate control method in wired networks is equation based rate control [1], in which the TCP Friendly rate is determined as a function of packet loss rate, round trip time and packet size. This approach, also known as TFRC, assumes that packet loss in wired networks is primarily due to congestion, and as such is not applicable to wireless networks in which the bulk of packet loss is due to error at the physical layer. In this paper, we propose multiple TFRC connections as an end-to-end rate control solution for wireless video streaming. We show that this approach not only avoids modifications to the network infrastructure or network protocol, but also results in full utilization of the wireless channel. NS-2 simulations and experiments over 1xRTT CDMA wireless data network are carried out to validate, and characterize the performance of our proposed approach.
AB - Rate control is an important issue in video streaming applications for both wired and wireless networks. A widely accepted rate control method in wired networks is equation based rate control [1], in which the TCP Friendly rate is determined as a function of packet loss rate, round trip time and packet size. This approach, also known as TFRC, assumes that packet loss in wired networks is primarily due to congestion, and as such is not applicable to wireless networks in which the bulk of packet loss is due to error at the physical layer. In this paper, we propose multiple TFRC connections as an end-to-end rate control solution for wireless video streaming. We show that this approach not only avoids modifications to the network infrastructure or network protocol, but also results in full utilization of the wireless channel. NS-2 simulations and experiments over 1xRTT CDMA wireless data network are carried out to validate, and characterize the performance of our proposed approach.
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U2 - 10.1109/INFCOM.2004.1357004
DO - 10.1109/INFCOM.2004.1357004
M3 - RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication)
SN - 0-7803-8355-9
VL - 2
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM
SP - 1181
EP - 1190
BT - IEEE INFOCOM 2004 - The Conference on Computer Communications
PB - IEEE
T2 - IEEE INFOCOM 2004 - Conference on Computer Communications - Twenty-Third Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies
Y2 - 7 March 2004 through 11 March 2004
ER -