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Session Management of a Variable Video Rate Streaming Session over Multi-Channel Networks

Authors:
Rachel Behar
Yael Samet
Ronit Nossenson

Keywords: multi-channel video transmission; session management; multimedia networks; video QoS.

Abstract:
In this paper, we propose and evaluate two algorithms for session management of a variable bit rate video session over a multi-channel network. The session manager decides how many channels should be active in the next time interval on the basis of required video bit rate, session measurement reports and other considerations. The algorithms performance is evaluated against a fixed selection of the number of active channels. Simulation results reveal that it is possible to control the session costs in terms of the number of active channels while keeping the quality of the received video stream on the top Mean Opinion Score (MOS) level. System performance significantly improved in the feedback-based managed session, as compared to the simple-managed session and to the fixed selection of the number of active channels sessions.

Pages: 26 to 33

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2015

Publication date: October 11, 2015

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-443X

ISBN: 978-1-61208-435-0

Location: St. Julians, Malta

Dates: from October 11, 2015 to October 16, 2015