Adaptive video streaming over a mobile network with TCP-Friendly rate control

Ktawut Tappayuthpijarn, Guenther Liebl, Thomas Stockhammer, Eckehard Steinbach

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Abstract

This paper investigates the performance of TCP-Friendly Rate Control (TFRC) to control the transmission rate of scalable video streams when used in a mobile network. The streams are encoded using the Scalable Video Coding (SVC) extension of the H.264/AVC standard. Adding or removing the layers is decided based on the TFRC during varying channel conditions of the mobile network. We conduct simulations in various realistic use cases, evaluate and compare the performance with and without TFRC-based adaptation. The results show significant improvements in terms of lower loss rate, delay, required buffer size and less playback interruption.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2009 ACM International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, IWCMC 2009
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages1325-1329
Number of pages5
ISBN (Print)9781605585697
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009
Event2009 ACM International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, IWCMC 2009 - Leipzig, Germany
Duration: 21 Jun 200924 Jun 2009

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 2009 ACM International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Connecting the World Wirelessly, IWCMC 2009

Conference

Conference2009 ACM International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, IWCMC 2009
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityLeipzig
Period21/06/0924/06/09

Keywords

  • H.264 SVC
  • Mobile network
  • TCP-Friendly Rate Control

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