Scalable Video Streaming Relay for Smart Mobile Devices in Wireless Networks

PLoS One. 2016 Dec 1;11(12):e0167403. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0167403. eCollection 2016.

Abstract

Recently, smart mobile devices and wireless communication technologies such as WiFi, third generation (3G), and long-term evolution (LTE) have been rapidly deployed. Many smart mobile device users can access the Internet wirelessly, which has increased mobile traffic. In 2014, more than half of the mobile traffic around the world was devoted to satisfying the increased demand for the video streaming. In this paper, we propose a scalable video streaming relay scheme. Because many collisions degrade the scalability of video streaming, we first separate networks to prevent excessive contention between devices. In addition, the member device controls the video download rate in order to adapt to video playback. If the data are sufficiently buffered, the member device stops the download. If not, it requests additional video data. We implemented apps to evaluate the proposed scheme and conducted experiments with smart mobile devices. The results showed that our scheme improves the scalability of video streaming in a wireless local area network (WLAN).

MeSH terms

  • Cell Phone*
  • Computer Communication Networks
  • Humans
  • Internet
  • Telemedicine*
  • Video Recording*
  • Wireless Technology*

Grants and funding

This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education (2015R1D1A1A01059786). This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Korea government (Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning) (No. 2015R1C1A1A01052627). This work was supported by Institute for Information & communications Technology Promotion (IITP) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIP) (R0126-16-1009, Development of Smart Mediator for Mashup Service and Information Sharing among ICBMS Platform).