MicroCast: cooperative video streaming on smartphones

Abstract

Today’s smartphones are equipped with significant processing, storage and sensing capabilities, as well as wireless connectivity through cellular, WiFi and Bluetooth. They provide ubiquitous Internet access, primarily through their cellular connection and secondarily through WiFi, and enable a plethora of new applications. Among those applications, video (including consuming and creating/posting video content) is increasingly popular. However, meeting the growing demand for high quality video is currently a challenge in cellular networks.