Paper Info
Title
QoE-Driven Mobile Edge Caching Placement for Adaptive Video Streaming.
Abstract
Caching at mobile edge servers can smooth temporal traffic variability and reduce the service load of base stations in mobile video delivery. However, the assignment of multiple video representations to distributed servers is still a challenging question in the context of adaptive streaming, since any two representations from different videos or even from the same video will compete for the limited caching storage. Therefore, it is important, yet challenging, to optimally select the cached representations for each edge server in order to effectively reduce the service load of base station while maintaining a high quality of experience (QoE) for users. To address this, we study a QoE-driven mobile edge caching placement optimization problem for dynamic adaptive video streaming that properly takes into account the different rate-distortion (R-D) characteristics of videos and the coordination among distributed edge servers. Then, by the optimal caching placement of representations for multiple videos, we maximize the aggregate average video distortion reduction of all users while minimizing the additional cost of representation downloading from the base station, subject not only to the storage capacity constraints of the edge servers, but also to the transmission and initial startup delay constraints of the users. We formulate the proposed optimization problem as an integer linear program to provide the performance upper bound, and as a submodular maximization problem with a set of knapsack constraints to develop a practically feasible cost benefit greedy algorithm. The proposed algorithm has polynomial computational complexity and a theoretical lower bound on its performance. Simulation results further show that the proposed algorithm is able to achieve a near-optimal performance with very low time complexity. Therefore, the proposed optimization framework reveals the caching performance upper bound for general adaptive video streaming systems, while the proposed algorithm provides some design guidelines for the edge servers to select the cached representations in practice based on both the video popularity and content information.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/TMM.2017.2757761
IEEE Trans. Multimedia
Keywords
Field
DocType
Streaming media,Mobile communication,Servers,Base stations,Mobile computing,Optimization,Adaptive systems
Mobile computing,Computer vision,Base station,Computer science,Cache,Server,Greedy algorithm,Artificial intelligence,Knapsack problem,Optimization problem,Mobile telephony,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
20
4
1520-9210
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
14
0.63
0
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chenglin Li111617.93
Laura Toni218615.22
J. Zou320335.51
Hongkai Xiong451282.84
Pascal Frossard53015230.41