TY - GEN
T1 - Quality-aware media scheduling on MPSoC platforms
AU - Gangadharan, Deepak
AU - Chakraborty, Samarjit
AU - Zimmermann, Roger
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Applications that stream multiple video/audio or video+audio clips are being implemented in embedded devices. A Picture-in-Picture (PiP) application is one such application scenario, where two videos are played simultaneously. Although the PiP application is very efficiently handled in televisions and personal computers by providing maximum quality of service to the multiple streams, it is a difficult task in devices with resource constraints. In order to efficiently utilize the resources, it is essential to derive the necessary processor cycles for multiple video streams such that they are displayed with some prespecified quality constraint. Therefore, we propose a network calculus based formal framework to help schedule multiple media streams in the presence of buffer contraints. Further, our framework also presents a schedulability analysis condition to check if the multimedia streams can be scheduled such that a prespecified quality constraint is satisfied with the available service. We present this framework in the context of a PiP application, but it is applicable in general for multiple media streams. The results obtained using the formal framework were further verified using experiments involving system simulation.
AB - Applications that stream multiple video/audio or video+audio clips are being implemented in embedded devices. A Picture-in-Picture (PiP) application is one such application scenario, where two videos are played simultaneously. Although the PiP application is very efficiently handled in televisions and personal computers by providing maximum quality of service to the multiple streams, it is a difficult task in devices with resource constraints. In order to efficiently utilize the resources, it is essential to derive the necessary processor cycles for multiple video streams such that they are displayed with some prespecified quality constraint. Therefore, we propose a network calculus based formal framework to help schedule multiple media streams in the presence of buffer contraints. Further, our framework also presents a schedulability analysis condition to check if the multimedia streams can be scheduled such that a prespecified quality constraint is satisfied with the available service. We present this framework in the context of a PiP application, but it is applicable in general for multiple media streams. The results obtained using the formal framework were further verified using experiments involving system simulation.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84885645879&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.7873/date.2013.204
DO - 10.7873/date.2013.204
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84885645879
SN - 9783981537000
T3 - Proceedings -Design, Automation and Test in Europe, DATE
SP - 976
EP - 981
BT - Proceedings - Design, Automation and Test in Europe, DATE 2013
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 16th Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition, DATE 2013
Y2 - 18 March 2013 through 22 March 2013
ER -