Feedback Flow Control with Hysteresial Techniques for Multimedia Retrievals
Multimedia Tools and Applications
MMNS '01 Proceedings of the 4th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services: Management of Multimedia on the Internet
Analysis of a Delay Based Congestion Avoidance Algorithm
Proceedings of the IFIP TC6/WG6.4 Fourth International Conference on High Performance Networking IV
Design and Implementation of a Streaming System for MPEG-1 Videos
Multimedia Tools and Applications
Low-complexity video coding for receiver-driven layered multicast
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
Layered quality adaptation for Internet video streaming
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
Streaming video over the Internet: approaches and directions
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
Video streaming over the internet with optimal bandwidth resource allocation
Multimedia Tools and Applications
DCAF: An MPEG-21 Dynamic Content Adaptation Framework
Multimedia Tools and Applications
Sub-packet forward error correction mechanism for video streaming over wireless networks
Multimedia Tools and Applications
A non-intrusive estimation for high-quality Internet TV services
Multimedia Tools and Applications
MAC-level Forward Error Correction mechanism for minimum error recovery overhead and retransmission
Mathematical and Computer Modelling: An International Journal
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Internet video streaming is a widely popular application however, in many cases, congestion control facilities are not well integrated into such applications. In order to be fair to other users that do not stream video, rate adaptation should be performed to respond to congestion. On the other hand, the effect of rate adaptation on the viewer should be minimized and this extra mechanism should not overload the client and the server. In this paper, we develop a heuristic approach for unicast congestion control. The primary feature of our approach is the two level adaptation algorithm that utilizes packet loss rate as well as receiver buffer data to maintain satisfactory buffer levels at the receiver. This is particularly important if receiver has limited buffer such as in mobile devices. When there is no congestion, to maintain best buffer levels, fine grain adjustments are carried out at the packet level. Depending on the level of congestion and receiver buffer level, rate shaping that involves frame discard and finally rate adaptation by switching to a different pre-encoded video stream are carried out. Additive increase multiplicative decrease policy is maintained to respond to congestion in a TCP- friendly manner. The algorithm is implemented and performance results show that it has adaptation ability that is suitable for both local area and wide area networks.