Content-aware distortion-fair video streaming in congested networks
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia - Special issue on quality-driven cross-layer design for multimedia communications
A queuing network model for minimizing the total makespan of computational grids
Computers and Electrical Engineering
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We propose a cross-layer design for resource-constrained systems that simultaneously decode multiple video streams on multiple parallel processors, cores, or processing elements. Our proposed design explicitly considers the coder specific application characteristics such as the decoding dependencies, decoding deadlines, and distortion impacts of different video packets (e.g., frames, slices, groups of slices etc.). The key to the cross-layer design is the resource management control plane (RMCP) that coordinates the scheduling and processor selection across the active applications. The RMCP deploys a priority-queuing model that can evaluate the system congestion and predict the total expected video quality for the set of active decoding tasks. Using this model, we develop a robust distortion-and delay-aware scheduling algorithm for video packets. This algorithm aims to maximize the sum of achieved video qualities over all of the decoded video sequences. Additionally, we propose a processor selection scheme intended to minimize the delays experienced by the queued video packets. In this way, the number of missed decoding deadlines is reduced and the overall decoded video quality is increased. We compare queuing-theoretic based scheduling strategies to media agnostic scheduling strategies (i.e., earliest-deadline-first scheduling) that do not jointly consider the decoding deadlines and distortion impacts. Our results illustrate that by directly considering the video application's properties in the design of a video decoding system, significant system performance gains on the order of 4 dB peak-signal-to-noise ratio can be achieved.