Joint Scalable Video Coding and Transcoding Solutions for Fog-Computing-Assisted DASH Video Applications

Majd Nafeh, Arash Bozorgchenani and Daniele Tarchi ()
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Majd Nafeh: Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering “Guglielmo Marconi”, University of Bologna, 40121 Bologna, Italy
Arash Bozorgchenani: School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YQ, UK
Daniele Tarchi: Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering “Guglielmo Marconi”, University of Bologna, 40121 Bologna, Italy

Future Internet, 2022, vol. 14, issue 9, 1-18

Abstract: Video streaming solutions have increased their importance in the last decade, enabling video on demand (VoD) services. Among several innovative services, 5G and Beyond 5G (B5G) systems consider the possibility of providing VoD-based solutions for surveillance applications, citizen information and e-tourism applications, to name a few. Although the majority of the implemented solutions resort to a centralized cloud-based approach, the interest in edge/fog-based approaches is increasing. Fog-based VoD services result in fulfilling the stringent low-latency requirement of 5G and B5G networks. In the following, by resorting to the Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) technique, we design a video-segment deployment algorithm for streaming services in a fog computing environment. In particular, by exploiting the inherent adaptation of the DASH approach, we embed in the system a joint transcoding and scalable video coding (SVC) approach able to deploy at run-time the video segments upon the user’s request. With this in mind, two algorithms have been developed aiming at maximizing the marginal gain with respect to a pre-defined delay threshold and enabling video quality downgrade for faster video deployment. Numerical results demonstrate that by effectively mapping the video segments, it is possible to minimize the streaming latency while maximising the users’ target video quality.

Keywords: fog computing; DASH; scalable video coding; transcoding (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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