Bitrate and video quality planning for mobile streaming scenarios using a GPS-based bandwidth lookup service

Author

Riiser, Haakon ; Vigmostad, Paul ; Griwodz, Carsten ; Halvorsen, Pål

Author_Institution

Netview Technol. AS, Norway

fYear

2011

fDate

11-15 July 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

One of the main challenges when streaming video to mobile devices is to handle fluctuating bandwidth and frequent network outages as the device is brought in and out of areas with network coverage. In this paper, we propose bitrate and video quality planning algorithms for mobile streaming scenarios using a GPS-based bandwidth-lookup service in order to reduce frequently changing video quality and the number of playout interruptions. Our real world experiments using an adaptive segmented HTTP video streaming system while travelling on popular commute routes indicate that the users´ quality of experience is greatly increased.

Keywords

Global Positioning System; hypermedia; transport protocols; video streaming; GPS-based bandwidth lookup service; HTTP video streaming system; mobile streaming; video quality planning; Adaptive systems; Bandwidth; Bit rate; Monte Carlo methods; Planning; Prediction algorithms; Streaming media; GPS-based bandwidth prediction; adaptive streaming; bitrate and quality planning;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2011 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Barcelona

ISSN

1945-7871

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-348-3

Electronic_ISBN

1945-7871

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICME.2011.6012045

Filename

6012045