Optimal Resource Allocation for Distributed Video Communication
By Yifeng He, Ling Guan, Wenwu Zhu
Published June 15th 2012 by CRC Press – 207 pages
Series: Multimedia Computing, Communication and Intelligence
Description
While most books on the subject focus on resource allocation in just one type of network, this book is the first to examine the common characteristics of multiple distributed video communication systems. Comprehensive and systematic, Optimal Resource Allocation for Distributed Video Communication presents a unified optimization framework for resource allocation across these systems.
The bookexamines the techniques required for optimal resource allocation over Internet, wireless cellular networks, wireless ad hoc networks, and wireless sensor networks. It provides you with the required foundation in video communications, including Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks, wireless networks, and visual sensor networks.
Whether you’re in industry or academia, you’ll value how the book outlines current challenges facing the field and outlines a general solution framework for addressing these challenges. From problem formulations and theoretical analysis to practical algorithms, it facilitates the comprehensive understanding required to achieve optimized video and multimedia communications.
- Presents the resource allocation techniques for scalable video communications over Internet or wireless networks
- Examines two resource allocation problems—distributed throughput maximization for scalable P2P Video-on-Demand (VoD) systems and streaming capacity for P2P VoD systems
- Outlines an optimal prefetching framework for reducing seeking delays in P2P VoD applications
- Examines distributed optimization techniques for unicast and multicast video streaming over wireless ad hoc networks
- Considers the network lifetime maximization problem in wireless visual sensor networks
Detailing methods that can immediately improve the performance of your video communication systems, this book presents multiple applications of optimal resource allocation. For each of the applications, the authors present the problem formulation, the distributed algorithm, and the simulation results.
Contents
Introduction
Introduction
Technical Challenges in Distributed Video Communications
Recent Advances on Optimal Resource Allocation for Distributed Video Communications
Optimal Resource Allocation in P2P Streaming Systems
P2P Live Streaming Systems
P2P VoD Streaming Systems
Optimal Resource Allocation for Video Streaming over Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Optimal Resource Allocation for Wireless Visual Sensor Networks
Overview of the Book
Bibliography
Optimized Resource Allocation for Scalable Video Communications
Network-Adaptive Resource Allocation for Scalable Video Streaming over the Internet
QoS-Adaptive Resource Allocation for Scalable Video Transmission over Cellular Networks
Hybrid UEP and Delay-Constrained ARQ for Scalable Video Delivery
Distortion-Minimized Resource Allocation
Power-Minimized Resource Allocation
Power-Minimized Joint Power Control and Resource Allocation for Video Communications over Wireless Channels
Power-Rate Relationship and Power-Minimized Rate Allocation for a Single User
Power-Rate Relationship and Power-Minimization Rate Allocation for a Group of Users
Summary
Bibliography
Optimal Resource Allocation for P2P Streaming Systems
Overview of P2P Streaming Systems
P2P Live Streaming Systems
P2P VoD Systems
Distributed Throughput Maximization for Scalable P2P VoD Systems
Throughput Maximization in Buffer-Forwarding P2P
VoD Systems
Problem Formulation
Distributed Solution
Simulation Results
Throughput Maximization in Hybrid-Forwarding P2P VoD Systems
Problem Formulation
Simulation Results
Streaming Capacity for P2P VoD systems
Streaming Capacity for an Independent-Channel P2P VoD System
Streaming Capacity for a Correlated-Channel P2P VoD System
Optimization of Server Upload Allocation among Channels
Cross-Channel Sharing of Peer Upload Bandwidth
Simulation Results
Summary
Bibliography
Prefetching Scheme and Substream Allocation in P2P VoD Applications
Optimal Prefetching Scheme in P2P VoD Applications with Guided Seeks
Introduction
Seeking Statistics Aggregation
Intuitive Approach
The Proposed Hybrid Sketches
Estimation of Segment Access Probability
Optimal Prefetching Scheme
The Optimal Prefetching Scheme
The Optimal Cache Replacement Policy
Simulation Results
Performance Evaluation of Seeking Statistics Aggregation
Performance Evaluation of the Prefetching Scheme
Practical Issues
Optimization of Substream Allocation in Layered P2P Applications
Optimal Substream Allocation Scheme
Single-File system
Multi-File system
Evolution of Video Quality and Peer Population
Simulation Results
Summary
Bibliography
Video Streaming over Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
System Models
Video Distortion Model
Network Model
Packet Loss Model
Optimized Video Unicasting over Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Problem Formulation and Distributed Solution
Problem Formulation
Distributed Solution
Simulation results
Optimized Video Multicasting over FDMA Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Problem Formulation and Distributed Solution
Problem Formulation
Distributed Solution
Simulation Results
Distributed Cross-Layer Optimization for Video Multicasting over CDMA Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Problem Formulation
Distributed Algorithm
First-Layer Decomposition
Second-Layer Decomposition
Simulation Results
Chapter Summary
Bibliography
Optimal Resource Allocation for Wireless Visual Sensor Networks
Introduction
System Models
Network Graph
Channel Error Model
Power Consumption Model
Network Lifetime
Achievable Maximum Network Lifetime
Problem Formulation
Distributed Algorithm
Simulation Results
Maximum Network Lifetime for Large-Delay Applications
Problem Formulation and Solution
Simulation Results
Maximum Network Lifetime for Small-Delay Applications
With FEC
Problem Formulation and Solution
Simulation Results
Without FEC
Transmission Distortion
Tradeoff between Maximum Network Lifetime and Video Quality
Chapter Summary
Bibliography
Index
Author Bio
Yifeng He has been an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ryerson University, Canada, since July 2009. He received his Ph.D. degree from Ryerson University, Canada, in 2008, M.S. degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, in 2001, and B.S. degree from Tongji University, China, in 1994, respectively, all in Electrical Engineering. Dr. He was a research intern at Microsoft Research Asia in 2007, and a postdoctoral fellow at Ryerson University from 2008 to 2009. His research interests include Peer-to-Peer (P2P) video streaming, wireless video streaming, wireless sensor networks, and distributed optimizations for multimedia communications. Dr. He has published about 30 research papers in the field of multimedia communications. He is co-editing a book, entitled "Multimedia Image and Video Processing" (2nd Edition), to be published by CRC Press. Dr. He is the recipient of 2008 Canada Governor General’s Gold Medal, and 2007 Best Paper Award of Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM).
Ling Guan is a Tier I Canada Research Chair in Multimedia and Computer Technology, and a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. He received his Bachelor's Degree from Tianjin University, China, Master's Degree from University of Waterloo, Canada and Ph.D. Degree from University of British Columbia, Canada. Dr. Guan has been working on image, video and multimedia signal processing and communication, and published extensively in the field. He currently serves on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology and numerous other international journals. He chaired the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo in Toronto, co-chaired the 2008 ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval in Niagara Falls, and served as the Founding General Chair of IEEE Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia in 2000. Dr. Guan is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. He is an IEEE Circuits and System Society Distinguished Lecturer (2010-2011) and a recipient of the 2005 IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology Best Paper Award. Dr. Guan has rich experience in authoring and editing books, and has a particularly successful track record with CRC PRESS. His first two books, Adaptive Image Processing: A Computational Intelligence Perspectiveand Multimedia Image and Video Processing, both published by CRC PRESS, have been very popular among peers.
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