Title
Loss Visibility Optimized Real-time Video Transmission over MIMO Systems
Abstract
The structured nature of video data motivates introducing video-aware decisions that make use of this structure for improved video transmission over wireless networks . In this paper, we introduce an architecture for real-time video transmission over multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communication systems using loss visibility side information . We quantify the perceptual importance of a packet through the packet loss visibility and use the loss visibility distribution to provide a notion of relative packet importance . To jointly achieve high video quality and low latency, we define the optimization objective function as the throughput weighted by the loss visibility of each packet, a proxy for the total perceptual value of successful packets per unit of time. We solve the problem of mapping video packets to MIMO subchannels and adapting per-stream rates to maximize the proposed objective . We show that the solution enables jointly reaping gains in terms of improved video quality and lower latency. Optimized packet-stream mapping enables transmission of more relevant packets over more reliable streams while unequal modulation opportunistically increases the transmission rate on the stronger streams to enable low latency delivery of high priority packets. Tested on H.264-encoded video sequences, for a $4 times 4$ MIMO system with three spatial streams, the proposed architecture achieves 8 dB power reduction for the same video quality and supports $2.4times $ higher throughput due to unequal modulation. Furthermore, the gains are achieved at the expense of few bits of cross-layer overhead rather than a complex cross-layer design.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/TMM.2015.2468196
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
Keywords
Field
DocType
Streaming media,MIMO,Propagation losses,Video recording,Quality assessment,Encoding,Optimization
Wireless network,Computer science,Network packet,Packet loss,MIMO,Computer network,Real-time computing,Latency (engineering),Throughput,Video quality,Spatial multiplexing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
abs/1301.3174
10
1520-9210
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.42
28
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Amin Abdel Khalek11257.44
Constantine Caramanis22022115.92
Robert W. Heath314415885.64