PERFORMANCE OF AUDIO/VIDEO SERVICES ON CONSTRAINED VARIABLE USER ACCESS LINES

M. Vilas, X. G. Pañeda, D. Melendi, R. Garcia, V. Garcia

2007

Abstract

Nowadays, it is more and more common for the same access line to be shared among different services and even among different users. This change in home users’ behaviour, that has given rise to resource consumption close to the maximum available in user access lines, is mainly due to the increase in subscriber access capabilities which have taken place in the last few years. At the same time, contracts fulfilled by customers and network operators only provide guarantees for a reduced percentage of the maximum download/upload capacity of the line. In this paper, a study of the effects on streaming services caused by variations on the access line and by the traffic of other services is carried out. One of the main conclusions of the paper is that the delivery rate of UDP streaming sessions is mainly guided by the quality of the contents and does not consider the congestion in the network. For this reason, a method for delivery rate estimation for UDP streaming sessions is presented.

References

  1. Li, M., Claypool, M., Kinicki, R. (2002), MediaPlayer versus Real Player - A Comparison of Network Turbulence, Paper presented at ACM SIGCOMM, Marseille, France, 2002.
  2. Kuang, T., Carey, W. (2002), A measurement study of Real Media Streaming Traffic, Paper presented at ITCOM, Boston, Massachusetts USA, 2002
  3. Chung, J., Claypool, M. (2006), Empirical Evaluation of the Congestion Responsiveness of Real Player Video Streams, Kluwer Multimedia Tools and Applications, Volume 31, Number 2, November 2006.
  4. Real Networks, (n.d), Retrieved March 12th, 2007, from
  5. Boyden, S., Mahanti, A., Williamsom, C. (2005), Characterizing the Behaviour of RealVideo Streams, Paper presented at SCS, Philadelphia, USA, 2005.
  6. Doshi, R., Cao, P. (2003), Streaming traffic fairness over low bandwidth WAN links, Paper presented at WIAPP 2003. San Jose, CA, USA, 2003.
  7. Wu, H., Claypool, M., Kinicki, R. (2005), Adjusting Forward Error Correction with Temporal Scaling for TCP-Friendly Streaming MPEG, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications, Vol 1, Issue 4, November 2005.
  8. Song. B., Chung, K., Shin, Y. (2002), SRTP: TCPFriendly Congestion Control for Multimedia Streaming, Paper presented at ICOIN, Korea, 2002.
  9. Handley, M., Floyd, S., Pahdye, J., Widmer, J., TCP Friendly Rate Control (TFRC): Protocol Specification, RFC 3448, January 2003.
  10. Iperf: Testing the limits of your Network. TCP/UDP Bandwidth Management Tool, (n.d) Retrieved March 12th, 2007 from http://dast.nlanr.net/Projects/Iperf/
  11. TC. Linux QoS Control Tool, (n.d), Retrieved March 12th, 2007 from http://www.rns-nis.co.yu/mps/
  12. NetEM. Network Emulation (n.d), Retrieved March 12th, 2007 from http://linux-net.osdl.org/index.php/Netem
  13. Laskshminarayanan, K., Padmanabhan, V. (2003), Some findings on the Network Performance of Broadband Hosts, Paper presented at ACM conference on Internet measurement, Florida, USA, 2003.
  14. Kennedy D., and Atov, I., (2006) Implementing a Testbed for the Evaluation of FAST TCP in DOCSIS-based Access Networks, Technical Report 060119A, Swinburne University of Technology, 2006.
  15. Zhenglin, L., Chongyang, X., (2002), An Analytical Model for the Performance of the DOCSIS CATV Network, The Computer Journal, Vol 45, No. 3, 2002.
  16. Ekelin, S., Nilsson, M., Hartikainen, E., Johnsson, A., Mangs, J.-E., Melander, B., Bjorkman, M., (2006), Real-Time Measurement of End-to-End Available Bandwidth using Kalman Filtering, 10th IEEE/IFIP NOM 2006, Vancouver, Canada.
  17. Balk, A., Gerla, M., Sanadidi, M., (2003) Adaptive MPEG-4 Video Streaming with Bandwidth Estimation, Lecture Notes In Computer Science; Vol. 2601, 2003.
Download


Paper Citation


in Harvard Style

Vilas M., G. Pañeda X., Melendi D., Garcia R. and Garcia V. (2007). PERFORMANCE OF AUDIO/VIDEO SERVICES ON CONSTRAINED VARIABLE USER ACCESS LINES . In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications - Volume 1: SIGMAP, (ICETE 2007) ISBN 978-989-8111-13-5, pages 22-27. DOI: 10.5220/0002134900220027


in Bibtex Style

@conference{sigmap07,
author={M. Vilas and X. G. Pañeda and D. Melendi and R. Garcia and V. Garcia},
title={PERFORMANCE OF AUDIO/VIDEO SERVICES ON CONSTRAINED VARIABLE USER ACCESS LINES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications - Volume 1: SIGMAP, (ICETE 2007)},
year={2007},
pages={22-27},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002134900220027},
isbn={978-989-8111-13-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications - Volume 1: SIGMAP, (ICETE 2007)
TI - PERFORMANCE OF AUDIO/VIDEO SERVICES ON CONSTRAINED VARIABLE USER ACCESS LINES
SN - 978-989-8111-13-5
AU - Vilas M.
AU - G. Pañeda X.
AU - Melendi D.
AU - Garcia R.
AU - Garcia V.
PY - 2007
SP - 22
EP - 27
DO - 10.5220/0002134900220027