In this paper, we would like to investigate fundamental impacts of multicast opportunities on efficient transmission of a 360 VR video to multiple users in the cases with and without transcoding at each user. We estab...
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(数字)9781728109626
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(纸本)9781728109633
In this paper, we would like to investigate fundamental impacts of multicast opportunities on efficient transmission of a 360 VR video to multiple users in the cases with and without transcoding at each user. We establish a novel mathematical model that reflects the impacts of multicast opportunities on the average transmission energy in both cases and the transcoding energy in the case with user transcoding, and facilitates the optimal exploitation of transcoding-enabled multicast opportunities. In the case without user transcoding, we optimize the transmission resource allocation to minimize the average transmission energy by exploiting natural multicast opportunities. The problem is nonconvex. We transform it to an equivalent convex problem and obtain an optimal solution using standard convex optimization techniques. In the case with user transcoding, we optimize the transmission resource allocation and the transmission quality level selection to minimize the weighted sum of the average transmission energy and the transcoding energy by exploiting both natural and transcoding-enabled multicast opportunities. The problem is a challenging mixed discrete-continuous optimization problem. We transform it to a Difference of Convex (DC) programming problem and obtain a suboptimal solution using a DC algorithm. Finally, numerical results demonstrate the importance of effective exploitation of transcoding-enabled multicast opportunities in the case with user transcoding.
Nowadays, we are observing an explosion on recording and transmitting of videos from multiple sources such as Social Media (Periscope, Facebook, Youtube etc.) and owner of trains/coaches (Trenitalia-Frecce-Italy, TGV-...
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(纸本)9781538658154
Nowadays, we are observing an explosion on recording and transmitting of videos from multiple sources such as Social Media (Periscope, Facebook, Youtube etc.) and owner of trains/coaches (Trenitalia-Frecce-Italy, TGV-France, Ryanair-Bus-Travels, etc.). In this paper, we investigate how to support the provisioning of videos to heterogeneous end user devices in different contexts, adapting the content to the specific requirements of the used end devices. In particular, we present a new Cloud-Edge Service for vIdeO delivery (CESIO) architecture, that exploits Cloud and Edge virtual resources to improve the delivery video contents at different quality resolutions. The paper describes architecture components and their behaviour in the system. Moreover, a possible application scenario is discussed to well explain how the proposed solution works.
Server and Network Assisted Dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP (SAND) is a promising technology to cope with the dramatic increase in video streaming traffic. The new emerging Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) paradigm ma...
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ISBN:
(数字)9781728109626
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(纸本)9781728109633
Server and Network Assisted Dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP (SAND) is a promising technology to cope with the dramatic increase in video streaming traffic. The new emerging Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) paradigm may further facilitate bitrate adaptation and video transcoding in a SAND system with the help of local edge servers. A critical issue in MEC-SAND framework is to guarantee Quality of Experience (QoE) for clients while achieving efficient utilization of edging network resources. In this paper, we aim to develop an adaptive video delivery scheme to minimize the delay in MEC assisted ultra-dense networks. In our scheme, each client is mapped to a server that better fits its requirements and transmission condition, and a bitrate selection mechanism is exploited to decide the best video version for the client. Besides, time-consuming transcoding tasks are carefully scheduled considering edge computing capacity. We formulate a Mix-Integer Non-Linear Programming (MINLP) problem to jointly determine cell association, bitrate adaption, and computing resource allocation. We exploit the generalized Benders decomposition method to reduce the solving complexity of the formulated problem. Numerical results validate the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed scheme.
Video transcoding has been widely applied in video streaming industry to convert videos into multiple formats for heterogeneous users. To provide fast and reliable transcoding services, some emerging platforms are lev...
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(纸本)9781538649206
Video transcoding has been widely applied in video streaming industry to convert videos into multiple formats for heterogeneous users. To provide fast and reliable transcoding services, some emerging platforms are leveraging blockchain and smart contract technology to build decentralized transcoding hubs with flexible monetization mechanisms, where any users can rent their idle computing resources to become transcoders in order to receive reward. On these blockchain-enabled platforms, transcoder selection together with resource allocation is a crucial but challenging issue, which should maximize the transcoding revenue to motivate the transcoder candidates as well as handling the dynamic quality of service (QoS) requirements and candidates' characteristics. In this paper, we propose a novel deep reinforcement learning (DRL)-based transcoder selection framework for blockchain-enabled video streaming. Specifically, we propose an evaluation mechanism to facilitate transcoder selection, and design the transcoder selection and resource allocation scheme using the DRL approach. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed framework.
This paper compares the coding efficiency between the range coder in the Opus coder and the Huffman coder used in the MP-3 (MPEG-I Layer 3) and MPEG-2 AAC. The results show that the range coder has efficiency advantag...
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(纸本)9781538663011
This paper compares the coding efficiency between the range coder in the Opus coder and the Huffman coder used in the MP-3 (MPEG-I Layer 3) and MPEG-2 AAC. The results show that the range coder has efficiency advantage of about 9 % at a rate of 128 kbps. The simulation, in a sense, indicates that transcoding from the Opus format to MP-3 or AAC format will lead to quality degradation.
In 2011, 90,000 authentic text messages in French were collected from the general public by academics in the south of France in the context of the sud4science LR project ( http://*** and *** ). This paper retraces the...
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In 2011, 90,000 authentic text messages in French were collected from the general public by academics in the south of France in the context of the sud4science LR project ( http://*** and *** ). This paper retraces the design of the corpus collation, including linking text-message data with usage, before proceeding with a three-step semi- automatic anonymisation process, transcoding of the SMS data into “standardised” French, and an optional linguistic annotation phase. The researchers have started linguistic analyses of language practices and sociolinguistic data contained in the questionnaire. The corpus will be made available for researchers, students and the general public in 2014.
Ultra-high definition video, sometimes termed 4k or 8k video, is likely to become the format for future video services for both home and cinema media However, streaming real-time ultra-high definition
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(纸本)9781479900961
Ultra-high definition video, sometimes termed 4k or 8k video, is likely to become the format for future video services for both home and cinema media However, streaming real-time ultra-high definition
transcoding is an inevitable need that is highly required for the current communication system like telemedicine, education, etc. However, it is not devoid of challenges that occur during retrieval end of format incom...
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transcoding is an inevitable need that is highly required for the current communication system like telemedicine, education, etc. However, it is not devoid of challenges that occur during retrieval end of format incompatibility. Apart from the massive research work in past on designing efficient transcoder architecture, quality of image resolution in wireless media is found to be quite challenging. Hence, this paper presents a novel algorithm that ensures transmission of a quality image file using pre-defined compression ratio and simulated over wireless standards e.g. OFDM. For ensuring quality delivery, the system uses simple and cost effective discrete wavelet transform that can maintain better resolution till the retrieval stage. Continued by quantization and entropy encoding, the system uses the design of JPEG2000 transcoder considering PSNR and BPP as the factor of evaluation.
Video transcoding refers to the process of converting a compressed digital video from one format to another. Since it is a compute-intensive operation, transcoding of a large number of on-demand videos requires a larg...
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Video transcoding refers to the process of converting a compressed digital video from one format to another. Since it is a compute-intensive operation, transcoding of a large number of on-demand videos requires a large scale cluster of transcoding servers. Moreover, storage of multiple transcoded versions of each source video requires a large amount of disk space. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) clouds provide virtual machines (VMs) for creating a dynamically scalable cluster of servers. Likewise, a cloud storage service may be used to store a large number of transcoded videos. Moreover, it may be possible to reduce the total IaaS cost by trading storage for computation, or vice versa. In this paper, we present a computation and storage trade-off strategy for cost-efficient video transcoding in the cloud called cost and popularity score based strategy. The proposed strategy estimates computation cost, storage cost, and video popularity of individual transcoded videos and then uses this information to make decisions on how long a video should be stored or how frequently it should be re-transcoded from a given source video. It is demonstrated in a discrete-event simulation and is evaluated in a series of experiments involving semi synthetic and realistic load patterns.
transcoding techniques require a high complexity and reduce the video quality with every transcoding step. When transcoding an input bitstream to scalable video coding (SVC), only one adaptation step is required and a...
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transcoding techniques require a high complexity and reduce the video quality with every transcoding step. When transcoding an input bitstream to scalable video coding (SVC), only one adaptation step is required and a scaled bitstream is extractable afterwards. To reduce the H.264/AVC-to-SVC transcoding complexity, we propose a transcoding architecture which combines optimized closed- and open-loop transcoding techniques. This transcoder scales the complexity depending on the available resources. Relative to a cascaded decoder-encoder the complexity can be reduced by 99.28%, while a high rate distortion efficiency is maintained and a high degree of scalability guaranteed.
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