Optimal Bandwidth Reservation for Video Streaming in DiffServ Domain
Zheng Wan · International Journal of Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering · 2016
With the emergency of more and more video applications, the problem of providing differentiated Quality of Service (QoS) for various kinds of streams should be solved.DiffServ was proposed to balance transmission guarantee of video and data streams.Existing studies focused on the promotion of video receiving quality by allocating excess resources.In this paper we propose an optimal bandwidth reservation mechanism, aiming at proper amount of bandwidth reservation and good video transmission performance.This mechanism tries to find a moderate reservation according to the video characteristics and buffer size of forwarding routers.Various video sequences and different buffer sizes are employed in the performance evaluation experiments and simulation results verify that (1) Proposed mechanism show its adaptability to data rate, data rate variation and continuous burst of the streaming video.(2) Proposed mechanism presents good performance under various buffer sizes.(3) The amount of bandwidth reservation, which is determined by the streaming video and buffer size of forwarding routers, is moderate to ensure video receiving quality.