{"title":"A contribution-aware multiple parent overlay network for P2P media streaming","authors":"S. Awiphan, Zhou Su, J. Katto","doi":"10.1109/PV.2010.5706828","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PV.2010.5706828","url":null,"abstract":"Service capacity and contribution of the peers have been proven to be the important factors for selecting a serving peer in the P2P overlay networks. In this paper, we study how to design a multi-parent overlay network in a contribution aware manner. Our idea is to utilize the outbound bandwidth of all overlay nodes efficiently. Different from other multi-source streaming approaches, we employ push-based data delivery in order to minimize the latency. The core of our overlay is conceived in a tree structure rooted at a source. The auxiliary connections with redundancy avoidance capability are proposed to increase the resilience of the tree. Furthermore, we introduce an overlay joining algorithm where the parent whose degrees are exhausted responses the new peer with a list of potential peers having residual degrees so that the new peer can join the overlay with minimal requests. Simulations through ns2 demonstrate the efficiency of our solution.","PeriodicalId":339319,"journal":{"name":"2010 18th International Packet Video Workshop","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127891460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enhanced intra coding with joint line and pixel prediction","authors":"Li Zhang, Siwei Ma, Wen Gao","doi":"10.1109/PV.2010.5706822","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PV.2010.5706822","url":null,"abstract":"Existing video coding standards always employ line-based intra prediction for intra frame coding. However, it sometimes does not perform well for the bottom-right boundary pixels due to the low correlation with the referenced pixels. In this paper, we propose a novel joint line and pixel prediction (JLPP) method to compensate the performance degradation of boundary pixels. In JLPP, each block is partitioned into two subblocks, including a P-subblock covering bottom and right pixels and a L-subblock comprising the rest pixels. L-subblock will firstly be predicted and coded in a similar way to H.264/AVC intra coding. Secondly, a gradient-adjusted prediction scheme is applied to P-subblock with the aid of the reconstructed pixels in L-subblock. Therefore, the reconstruction qualities of the boundary pixels used to predict the subsequent blocks can be enhanced. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method achieves a PSNR gain of up to 0.63dB compared with H.264/AVC intra coding.","PeriodicalId":339319,"journal":{"name":"2010 18th International Packet Video Workshop","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131744561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rate control and stream adaptation for scalable video streaming over multiple access networks","authors":"Cheng-Hsin Hsu, N. Freris, J. Singh, Xiaoqing Zhu","doi":"10.1109/PV.2010.5706817","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PV.2010.5706817","url":null,"abstract":"In a multihomed video streaming system, a video sequence is simultaneously transmitted over multiple access networks to a client. In this paper, we formulate the rate control and stream adaptation problems into a unified optimization problem, which determines the sending rates of individual networks, selects which video packets to transmit, and assigns each packet to an access network. We propose two heuristic algorithms with a trade-off between optimality and computational complexity. One of the proposed algorithms runs faster, while the other one results in better video quality. We propose a hybrid algorithm that demonstrates a good balance between optimality and computational complexity. We conduct extensive packet-level simulations to evaluate our algorithms using real network conditions and actual scalable video streams. We compare our algorithms against the rate control algorithms defined in the Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) standard. The simulation results show that our algorithms significantly outperform current systems while being TCP-friendly. Our algorithms achieve at least 10 dB quality improvement over DCCP and result in up to 83% packet delivery delay reduction.","PeriodicalId":339319,"journal":{"name":"2010 18th International Packet Video Workshop","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116429895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Perceptual video quality assessment on a mobile platform considering both spatial resolution and quantization artifacts","authors":"Yuanyi Xue, Yen-Fu Ou, Zhan Ma, Yao Wang","doi":"10.1109/PV.2010.5706839","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PV.2010.5706839","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we investigated the impact of spatial resolution and quantization on the perceptual quality of a compressed video coded from the SVC reference software - JSVM. Two subjective quality tests have been carried out on the TI Zoom2 mobile development platform (MDP). 5 different spatial resolutions (i.e., from QCIF to 4CIF) and 4 different quantization levels (i.e., QP 22, 28, 36, 44) are chosen to create the processed video sequences (PVS) from 7 different video sources. First test focuses on the effect of spatial resolution at fixed QP 22, while second test explores the impact of both spatial resolution and quantization artifacts. Videos coded at different spatial resolutions are displayed at the full screen size of the mobile platform. We report the test results in terms of how MOS reduces as the spatial resolution decreases at constant QP, and how MOS reduces as QP increases under the same spatial resolution. We found that the dropping rate of the MOS vs. spatial resolution increases as QP increases and the dropping rate of the MOS vs. QP increases as spatial resolution reduces. In addition, the dropping rate against spatial resolution is faster when the video is changing in a lower motion speed; while the dropping rate against QP is faster when the video has less texture details. Also, the dropping rate of MOS against spatial resolution can be captured by a one-parameter falling exponential function in most of cases.","PeriodicalId":339319,"journal":{"name":"2010 18th International Packet Video Workshop","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124788899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Taichi Kawano, Kazuhisa Yamagishi, Keishiro Watanabe, J. Okamoto
{"title":"No reference video-quality-assessment model for video streaming services","authors":"Taichi Kawano, Kazuhisa Yamagishi, Keishiro Watanabe, J. Okamoto","doi":"10.1109/PV.2010.5706833","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PV.2010.5706833","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a no reference video-quality-assessment model for estimating the quality of experience (QoE) of video streaming services using quality features derived from decoded video signals. The proposed model is useful as a QoE monitoring tool for video streaming services. It takes into account the impact of compression on video quality by using blockiness and blur derived from decoded video signals. We conducted subjective quality assessments and validated the performance of the model. Test results show that the proposed model estimates QoE with high quality-estimation accuracy.","PeriodicalId":339319,"journal":{"name":"2010 18th International Packet Video Workshop","volume":"2017 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125739635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Stapenhurst, D. Agrafiotis, J. Chung-How, J. Pledge
{"title":"Adaptive HRD parameter selection for fixed delay live wireless video streaming","authors":"R. Stapenhurst, D. Agrafiotis, J. Chung-How, J. Pledge","doi":"10.1109/PV.2010.5706831","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PV.2010.5706831","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we present a windowed rate adaptation scheme for transmitting delay-constrained video over a wireless channel. We consider an H.264 encoder with HRD-compliant rate control and a generic 802.11-like radio. The scheme assumes only loose coupling between system components which improves implementation feasibility at the cost of some performance. To demonstrate the validity of our scheme, we perform simulations using channel traces collected with 802.11n radio hardware. We compare both simple and ideal implementations of our scheme with an ideal non-adaptive system. Our scheme is shown to offer improvements in PSNR with significant benefit to be obtained from a more advanced implementation.","PeriodicalId":339319,"journal":{"name":"2010 18th International Packet Video Workshop","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125795570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zhi Liu, Gene Cheung, V. Velisavljevic, E. Ekmekcioglu, Yusheng Ji
{"title":"Joint source / channel coding forwwan multiview video multicast with cooperative peer-to-peer repair","authors":"Zhi Liu, Gene Cheung, V. Velisavljevic, E. Ekmekcioglu, Yusheng Ji","doi":"10.1109/PV.2010.5706827","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PV.2010.5706827","url":null,"abstract":"WWAN video multicast is challenging because of unavoidable packet losses, and inability to perform retransmission per packet for every user due to the NAK implosion problem. Previously proposed cooperative peer-to-peer repair (CPR) strategy, leveraging on the broadcast nature of wireless transmission and “uncorrelatedness” of receivers' channels, calls for peers with good WWAN channels to streaming server (rich peers) to locally relay packets lost to peers with bad WWAN channels (poor peers) over a secondary ad-hoc WLAN network. In the interactive multiview video streaming (IMVS) scenario, however, where users can each periodically select one out of many available views for decoding and display, a poor peer may not have a neighboring rich peer watching the same view for packet recovery via CPR. In this paper, we propose a new CPR strategy for peers to repair lost packets to neighbors watching different views. The key idea is for server to transmit depth maps in addition to texture maps, so that lost frames in a different view can be reconstructed using depth-image-based rendering (DIBR). Like Forward Error Correction (FEC) packets, encoded depth maps incur an overhead in redundant information transmission to counter network losses, and we allocate optimal amount of bits for FEC packets (for same-view direct path protection via WWAN source) and depth map encoding (for different-view indirect path via CPR peers) to minimize expected distortion. Experimental results show our proposed CPR scheme offers a 3.4dB PSNR improvement over a non-CPR scheme that relies on FEC only.","PeriodicalId":339319,"journal":{"name":"2010 18th International Packet Video Workshop","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123135872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}