This paper presents an analysis of a rate adaptive multimedia streaming technique according to which rate changes are obtained by varying the inter-packet transmission interval, rather than altering the source coding rate. Instead of constraining the transmitter to operate in real-time, the time scale of the proposed packet scheduler can vary between zero when the network is congested, to as faster than real-time as the channel bandwidth allows when the network is lightly loaded. Simulation results comparing a TCP-friendly test implementation of the variable time-scale streaming (VTSS) approach with an ideal source rate-adaptive technique - whose performance represents the upper bound of any transmission system based on source rate adaptation - show that the VTSS approach delivers higher perceptual quality (up to 1.2 dB PSNR in the considered scenario) and reduced quality fluctuations, for a wide range of standard video sequences. The gains are even more pronounced when the proposed technique is compared to constant bit-rate transmission.

Variable Time-Scale Streaming for Multimedia Transmission over IP Networks / Masala, Enrico; Quaglia, Davide; DE MARTIN, JUAN CARLOS. - STAMPA. - (2005), pp. 2143-2146. (Intervento presentato al convegno 13th European Signal Processing Conference tenutosi a Antalya, Turkey nel September 2005).

Variable Time-Scale Streaming for Multimedia Transmission over IP Networks

MASALA, Enrico;QUAGLIA, Davide;DE MARTIN, JUAN CARLOS
2005

Abstract

This paper presents an analysis of a rate adaptive multimedia streaming technique according to which rate changes are obtained by varying the inter-packet transmission interval, rather than altering the source coding rate. Instead of constraining the transmitter to operate in real-time, the time scale of the proposed packet scheduler can vary between zero when the network is congested, to as faster than real-time as the channel bandwidth allows when the network is lightly loaded. Simulation results comparing a TCP-friendly test implementation of the variable time-scale streaming (VTSS) approach with an ideal source rate-adaptive technique - whose performance represents the upper bound of any transmission system based on source rate adaptation - show that the VTSS approach delivers higher perceptual quality (up to 1.2 dB PSNR in the considered scenario) and reduced quality fluctuations, for a wide range of standard video sequences. The gains are even more pronounced when the proposed technique is compared to constant bit-rate transmission.
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