Adaptive MPEG-4 Video Streaming with Bandwidth Estimation Export

@inproceedings{balk03vtp, abstract = {The increasing popularity of streaming video is a cause for concern for the stability of the Internet because most streaming video content is currently delivered via UDP, without any end-to-end congestion control. Since the Internet relies on end systems implementing transmit rate regulation, there has recently been significant interest in congestion control mechanisms that are both fair to TCP and effective in delivering real-time streams. In this paper we design and implement a protocol that attempts to maximize the quality of real-time MPEG-4 video streams while simultaneously providing basic end-to-end congestion control. While several adaptive protocols have been proposed in the literature [20,27], the unique feature of our protocol, the Video Transport Protocol (VTP), is the use of receiver side bandwidth estimation. We deploy our protocol in a real network testbed and extensively study its behavior under varying link speeds and background traffic profiles using the FreeBSD Dummynet link emulator [23]. Our results show that VTP delivers consistent quality video in moderately congested networks and fairly shares bandwidth with TCP in all but a few extreme cases. We also describe some of the challenges in implementing an adaptive video streaming protocol.}, author = {Balk, Alex and Maggiorini, Dario and Gerla, Mario and Sanadidi, M. Y.}, booktitle = {Quality of Service in Multiservice IP Networks: Second International Workshop, QoS-IP 2003, Milano, Italy, February 24-26, 2003. Proceedings}, citeulike-article-id = {2176084}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/jhv28nf6af27v8d5}, journal = {Quality of Service in Multiservice IP Networks: Second International Workshop, QoS-IP 2003, Milano, Italy, February 24-26, 2003. Proceedings}, keywords = {congestion, protocol, video}, pages = {525--538}, posted-at = {2007-12-28 00:59:02}, priority = {0}, title = {Adaptive MPEG-4 Video Streaming with Bandwidth Estimation}, url = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/jhv28nf6af27v8d5}, year = {2003} }

TY - CONF ID - balk03vtp L3 - citeulike-article-id:2176084 N2 - The increasing popularity of streaming video is a cause for concern for the stability of the Internet because most streaming video content is currently delivered via UDP, without any end-to-end congestion control. Since the Internet relies on end systems implementing transmit rate regulation, there has recently been significant interest in congestion control mechanisms that are both fair to TCP and effective in delivering real-time streams. In this paper we design and implement a protocol that attempts to maximize the quality of real-time MPEG-4 video streams while simultaneously providing basic end-to-end congestion control. While several adaptive protocols have been proposed in the literature [20,27], the unique feature of our protocol, the Video Transport Protocol (VTP), is the use of receiver side bandwidth estimation. We deploy our protocol in a real network testbed and extensively study its behavior under varying link speeds and background traffic profiles using the FreeBSD Dummynet link emulator [23]. Our results show that VTP delivers consistent quality video in moderately congested networks and fairly shares bandwidth with TCP in all but a few extreme cases. We also describe some of the challenges in implementing an adaptive video streaming protocol. JF - Quality of Service in Multiservice IP Networks: Second International Workshop, QoS-IP 2003, Milano, Italy, February 24-26, 2003. Proceedings EP - 538 TI - Adaptive MPEG-4 Video Streaming with Bandwidth Estimation T2 - Quality of Service in Multiservice IP Networks: Second International Workshop, QoS-IP 2003, Milano, Italy, February 24-26, 2003. Proceedings SP - 525 KW - congestion KW - protocol KW - video AU - Balk, Alex AU - Maggiorini, Dario AU - Gerla, Mario AU - Sanadidi, MY PY - 2003/// UR - http://www.springerlink.com/content/jhv28nf6af27v8d5 ER -