TITRE Adaptive Packet Video Streaming Over IP Networks - LaBRI
TITRE Adaptive Packet Video Streaming Over IP Networks - LaBRI
TITRE Adaptive Packet Video Streaming Over IP Networks - LaBRI
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characteristics and relevance of each stream. As a result, sensitive information will<br />
undergo a privileged forwarding processing from the network, and then better QoS.<br />
We demonstrate also, that using network state as a feedback mechanism improves<br />
considerably the marking strategy.<br />
• Interworking signaling gateway. This gateway is a S<strong>IP</strong>/DMIF Multimedia<br />
Interworking Signaling Gateway. It allows S<strong>IP</strong> and MPEG-4 terminals to use services<br />
offered by each other to widely sharing multimedia content between heterogeneous<br />
wired and wireless <strong>IP</strong> terminals. Among the functionalities of this gateway, we cite<br />
session protocol conversion, service gateway conversion and address translation.<br />
We believe that the majority of the current video streaming systems over <strong>IP</strong> are missing at<br />
least one of these components. Our main contribution is in combining system-level components<br />
(media classification) with transport-level (application level protocol) and network-level<br />
components (traffic marking). Combining theses components into a coherent and integrated system<br />
architecture lead to a powerful cross-layer video streaming system.<br />
7.2 Open Issues and Future Work<br />
As part of our future work, we plan to pursue our research activity in the following directions:<br />
• Minimizing the impact of loss: Loss can be minimized by a real collaboration<br />
between the end system (server and client) and network. <strong>Packet</strong> loss affects the quality<br />
of service perceived by the user. So it is necessary to reduce the impact of loss and<br />
variation in QoS. At the end system, we have used object prioritization. The traffic<br />
can have different levels of priorities, from high to low. The high priority traffic is<br />
sent with high protection and with the low drop precedence class and the low priority<br />
traffic can be sent over best effort class. It is necessary to a mapping strategy to assure<br />
the QoS for each priority and for each class. Using feedback from the network or the<br />
end system can ameliorate considerably this strategy. Thus, we can apply high<br />
protection only if we detect high loss, and so on.<br />
• Enhancing video rate control mechanism: the implemented video rate control<br />
mechanism uses TCP-Friendly Rate Control Module. It is necessary to compare this<br />
mechanism with other congestion control mechanisms such AIMD and see their<br />
impact on the received quality. The quality of the received video depends considerably<br />
on the video rate variation. Users want a consistent quality over the time. Hence it is<br />
necessary to provide a TCP-Friendly mechanism with low variation in the QoS.<br />
• Designing protocols for video multicast: in this thesis, we assumed only a unicast<br />
video streaming. We should adapt our mechanisms for multicast video<br />
communication. Our video rate control algorithm is designed for unicast<br />
communication. It reacts on end-to-end feedback. In case of multicast<br />
communication, many users may generate many feedbacks. It is necessary to find<br />
schemes that provide a consistent quality for the whole clients.<br />
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