Differentiated end-to-end Internet services using a weighted proportional fair sharing TCP
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Promoting the use of end-to-end congestion control in the Internet
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Equation-based congestion control for unicast applications
Proceedings of the conference on Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communication
Rate-Distortion Based Video Compression: Optimal Video Frame Compression and Object Boundary Encoding
Adaptive Modulation over Nakagami Fading Channels
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Real-time and rate-distortion optimized video streaming with TCP
Image Communication
Wireless TCP-Friendly Rate Control over the DCCP Transport Protocol
ICWMC '08 Proceedings of the 2008 The Fourth International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications
TFRC-based rate control for real-time video streaming over wireless multi-hop mesh networks
ICC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Communications
Multiple TFRC Connections Based Rate Control for Wireless Networks
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
A comparison of the HIPERLAN/2 and IEEE 802.11a wireless LAN standards
IEEE Communications Magazine
Optimal mode selection and synchronization for robust video communications over error-prone networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Video coding with optimal inter/intra-mode switching for packet loss resilience
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
A transport protocol for supporting multimedia streaming in mobile ad hoc networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Cross-Layer Optimization for Video Summary Transmission over Wireless Networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
On end-to-end architecture for transporting MPEG-4 video over the Internet
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
Overview of the H.264/AVC video coding standard
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
MINMAX optimal video summarization
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
Scalable Wireless Video Streaming over Real-Time Publish Subscribe Protocol (RTPS)
DS-RT '13 Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/ACM 17th International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications
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Rate control is an important issue in video streaming applications. The most popular rate control scheme over wired networks is TCP-Friendly Rate Control (TFRC), which is designed to provide optimal transport service for unicast multimedia delivery based on the TCP Reno's throughput equation. It assumes perfect link quality, treating network congestion as the only reason for packet losses. Therefore, when used in wireless environment, it suffers significant performance degradation because of packet losses arising from time-varying link quality. Most current research focuses on enhancing the TFRC protocol itself, ignoring the tightly coupled relation between the transport layer and other network layers. In this paper, we propose a new approach to address this problem, integrating TFRC with the application layer and the physical layer to form a holistic design for real-time video streaming over wireless multi-hop networks. The proposed approach can achieve the best user-perceived video quality by jointly optimizing system parameters residing in different network layers, including real-time video coding parameters at the application layer, packet sending rate at the transport layer, and modulation and coding scheme at the physical layer. The problem is formulated and solved as to find the optimal combination of parameters to minimize the end-to-end expected video distortion constrained by a given video playback delay, or to minimize the video playback delay constrained by a given end-to-end video distortion. Experimental results have validated 2-4dB PSNR performance gain of the proposed approach in wireless multi-hop networks by using H.264/AVC and NS-2.