Resource allocation for audio and video streaming over the Internet

Author

Zhang, Qian ; Zhang, Ya-Qin ; Zhu, Wenwu

Author_Institution

Microsoft Res., Beijing, China

Volume

4

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

21

Abstract

Streaming of compressed audio and video (AV) over the Internet is a very challenging task since the current Internet only provides best-effort services and lacks Quality of Service (QoS) guarantee. This paper addresses resource allocation of multiple compressed AV streams delivered over the Internet to achieve end-to-end optimal quality. A multimedia streaming TCP-friendly transport protocol (MSTFP) is proposed to adaptively estimate the network bandwidth and smooth the sending rate. The resources are then allocated dynamically according to the media encoding distortion and network degradation. MPEG-4 streams with multiple video objects are used in the simulation to demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed scheme

Keywords

Internet; audio coding; data compression; multimedia communication; quality of service; resource allocation; transport protocols; video coding; Internet; MPEG-4 streams; QoS; TCP-friendly transport protocol; audio streaming; audiovisual streaming; compressed audio; compressed video; end-to-end optimal quality; multimedia streaming protocol; multiple compressed audio/video streams; multiple video objects; network bandwidth; resource allocation; sending rate smoothing; video streaming; Bandwidth; Degradation; Encoding; MPEG 4 Standard; Quality of service; Resource management; Streaming media; Transport protocols; Video compression; Web and internet services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 2000. Proceedings. ISCAS 2000 Geneva. The 2000 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Geneva

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5482-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCAS.2000.858678

Filename

858678