Title
MEC Resource Offloading for QoE-Aware HAS Video Streaming
Abstract
With the popularity of mobile edge computing (MEC), video streaming's peer-offloading strategy significantly affects the Quality of Experience (QoE) performance of video streaming for mobile users (MUs). Improving the service quality regarding the MUs' demand has become a vital challenge, reflected by QoE. This paper proposes a QoE-aware MEC-based peer-offloading method for HAS-based video streaming, called QOMECS. The proposed method considers dynamic MUs' demands and corresponding QoE requirements. We categorize the QoE KPIs into perceptual and systemic sectors. We formulate the corresponding transmission, computation, and offloading for MEC-based HAS into a QoE maximization problem. We propose a reverse-fuzzied particle swarm optimization (R-FPSO), to solve the highly nonlinear and perceptual-oriented optimization formulation. Unlike conventional fuzzy logic, R-FPSO reverses the fuzzification process by fuzzifying PSO's output (i.e. translated QoE KPIs into satisfactory levels) and further updates the particle values and velocities in the PSO process. Simulation results show that the proposed QOMECS dramatically improves the edge computing efficiency, with optimized QoE performance.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/ICC42927.2021.9500696
IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMMUNICATIONS (ICC 2021)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
QoE, Peer-offloading, Mobile edge computing, Video streaming
Conference
1550-3607
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Abd-Elhamid M. Taha117524.93
Najah Abu Ali29313.87
Hao Ran Chi3459.32
Ayman Radwan400.34