Adaptive VBR video for congested wireless home networks

Abstract

As the era of media-player applications seems to be receding, native streaming is being reconsidered in commercial environments. Ease of deployment is important to such developers and in that respect this paper proposes quality-adaptive variable bitrate (VBR) video streaming for home wireless networks. The main intention of the scheme is to adapt to congestion, taking advantage of simple buffer monitoring and transcoded bitrates. Compared to constant quality VBR and constant bitrate streaming, the paper demonstrates advantages in terms of stable delivered quality and reduced link latency.