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Published in: Annals of Telecommunications 1-2/2020

26-06-2019

VIRAL: coupling congestion control with fair video quality metric

Authors: Tuan Tran Thai, Emmanuel Lochin, Jérôme Lacan

Published in: Annals of Telecommunications | Issue 1-2/2020

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Abstract

Video streaming is often carried out by congestion controlled transport protocols to preserve network sustainability. However, the success of the growth of such non-live video flows is linked to the user quality of experience. Thus, one possible solution is to deploy complex quality of service systems inside the core network. Another possibility would be to keep the end-to-end principle while making aware transport protocols of video quality rather than throughput. The objective of this article is to investigate the latter by proposing a novel transport mechanism which targets video quality fairness among video flows. Our proposal, called VIRAL for virtual rate-quality curve, allows congestion controlled transport protocols to provide fairness in terms of both throughput and video quality. VIRAL is compliant with any rate-based congestion control mechanisms that enable a smooth sending rate for multimedia applications. Implemented inside TFRC a TCP-friendly protocol, we show that VIRAL enables both intra-fairness between video flows in terms of video quality and inter-fairness in terms of throughput between TCP and video flows.

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Metadata
Title
VIRAL: coupling congestion control with fair video quality metric
Authors
Tuan Tran Thai
Emmanuel Lochin
Jérôme Lacan
Publication date
26-06-2019
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Published in
Annals of Telecommunications / Issue 1-2/2020
Print ISSN: 0003-4347
Electronic ISSN: 1958-9395
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12243-019-00717-7

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