Adaptive video streaming and fixed-mobile convergence: A good team to reduce power consumption and improve users' QoE
Ramón Aparicio Pardo, Lucile Sassatelli · 2016
The evolution of novel access networks is dominated by two major changes: first, an increasing convergence of fixed optical and mobile wireless access networks (driven by the industry interested in mutualizing infrastructure); and secondly, a surge in video traffic (expected to represent 80 percent of all consumer Internet traffic in 2019). This motivates the introduction of video delivery optimization in the design of the novel fixed-mobile convergent access to obtain more energy efficient networks with better Quality of Experience (QoE) perceived by the end-user. In this paper, we study how the joint optimization of video adaptive streaming decisions (like the video bit rate selection) and access resource allocations (like optical and radio equipment placement) could yield to maximize the QoE at the same time as power consumption is reduced.