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Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A (Applied Physics & Engineering)  2006, Vol. 7 Issue (5 ): 13-    DOI: 10.1631/jzus.2006.A0773
    
Distributed media cooperation for enhanced video communication
Chakareski Jacob
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Signal Processing Institute, LTS4, Lausanne CH-1015, Switzerland
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Abstract  The author designed two algorithms for distributed cooperation among multiple video streams sharing common communication resources. The algorithms take advantage of an optimization framework that characterizes video packets such that joint resource allocation can be implemented not only over the packets of a single stream, but also across packets of different streams. The first algorithm enables collaboration among multiple video senders in an 802.11 CSMA/CA wireless network such that their joint performance is maximized. Via the algorithm, the users cooperatively establish transmission priorities based on the assigned characterizations of their video packets. The second technique allows for low-complexity joint bandwidth adaptation of multiple video streams at intermediate network nodes in the Internet in order to maximize the overall network performance. The author analyzes the advantages of the proposed algorithms over conventional solutions employed in such scenarios. It is shown that depending on system parameters such as available network data rate the proposed techniques can provide substantial gains in end-to-end performance.

Key wordsMedia cooperation      Distributed video streaming      Wireless networks      Resource allocation      Rate-quality optimization     
Received: 02 December 2005     
CLC:  TN919.8  
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Chakareski Jacob. Distributed media cooperation for enhanced video communication. Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A (Applied Physics & Engineering), 2006, 7(5 ): 13-.

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