Hybrid FLUTE/DASH video delivery over mobile wireless networks
January 1, 2014·
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Román Belda
Ismael de Fez
Francisco Fraile
Pau Arce Vila
Juan Carlos Guerri Cebollada
Abstract
This paper describes how File Delivery over Unidirectional Transport (FLUTE) and Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) can be used together to provide mobile video streaming services over broadcast wireless networks. FLUTE is a multicast protocol for multimedia file download; in this proposal, it is adapted to provide video streaming in crowded environments so that video is delivered in a single connection to all viewers, reducing network traffic. FLUTE incorporates an application-layer forward error correction (AL-FEC) mechanism to improve the reliability of broadcast communication. For streaming applications, AL-FEC improves the relationship between peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) of received video and the bandwidth allocated to the connection. The proposal applies simple unequal error protection schemes to favour the download of key frames. Furthermore, since the proposal is based on the same video segmentation as DASH, clients can connect to a DASH repository to repair errors in segments. This paper shows that FLUTE and DASH can be seamlessly integrated into a hybrid broadcast/unicast streaming technology, providing flexibility to trade off PSNR and bandwidth depending on network conditions.
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Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies
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Associate Professor at Universitat Politècnica de València
Román Belda received his degree in Computer Science in 2004 and an M.S. in Telematics in 2013 from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Spain. He obtained his Ph.D. in Telecommunications from UPV in 2021. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Universitat Politècnica de València and a member of the Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications (iTEAM). His research interests include mobile applications and multimedia transmission protocols.
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Master’s Programme Director at Valencian International University (VIU)
Ismael de Fez was born in Valencia, Spain in 1983. He received his Telecommunications Engineering degree in 2007 and his M.S. in Telematics in 2010 from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), where his M.Sc. thesis was awarded by the Telefónica chair of UPV. He obtained his PhD in Telecommunications from UPV in 2014 and an MBA from UPV in 2017. He worked as an R&D Engineer at the Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications (iTEAM, UPV) from 2008 to 2021. Since 2021 he has been Director of the Master’s in Development of Web Applications and Services at the Valencian International University (VIU). His research interests include multimedia transmission, DASH adaptive streaming, QoE modelling, AL-FEC coding for unidirectional wireless environments, and file encoding.
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Associate Professor at Universitat Politècnica de València
Pau Arce Vila received his Telecommunications Engineering degree in 2005, his M.S. in Communication Technologies, Systems and Networks in 2008, and his PhD in Telecommunications in 2014, all from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Spain. He is a Profesor Permanente Laboral in the Communications Department at UPV and a researcher at the Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications (iTEAM) since 2005. His research interests include multimedia QoS, adaptive video streaming (DASH), quality of experience, routing in wireless ad hoc networks, and performance evaluation of multimedia systems.
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Full Professor at Universitat Politècnica de València
Juan Carlos Guerri Cebollada was born in Valencia, Spain in 1969. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Telecommunication Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) in 1993 and 1997, respectively. He is a Full Professor in the Department of Communications Engineering at UPV, where he teaches at the ETSI Telecomunicación. He leads the Multimedia Communications research group (COMM) of the iTEAM (Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications). His research spans multimedia communications, adaptive video streaming (DASH), quality of experience, wireless and ad hoc networks, and the application of multimedia technologies to industry, medicine, education and communications.