The fifth-generation (5G) mobile communication system is being researched and developed for launch as a commercial service in 2020. The 5G mobile network will include many radio access technologies, such as LTE, 5G NR, and WLAN. Therefore, a user equipment (UE) will be connected to different types of base stations as it moves within a 5G heterogeneous network. Accordingly, it is assumed that the throughput will change with each change in the serving cell. The 5G mobile network is expected to serve large capacity contents, such as 4K videos. However, a conventional video streaming method cannot effectively use the available bandwidth in a 5G heterogeneous network. In this study, we propose a sending rate adaptation method based on predictions for the available bandwidth. In the proposed method, the available bandwidth is predicted from the communication log data. The communication logging database, including past throughput with its location, is created by a UE. A UE refers to the communication log data for predictions when the serving cell is likely to change. We develop a video streaming device that implements the proposed method and evaluates its performance. The results show that the proposed method can change the sending rate and resolution according to the available bandwidth. The proposed method increases the probability of transmitting high-resolution video, which is not possible with conventional methods. Moreover, we performed subjective evaluation of the transmitted video by the proof-of-concept test. The result of the subjective evaluation shows that the proposed method improves the quality of experience for video streaming.

In this paper, we present a design for an optical video transmission system employing a super wide-band FM modulation scheme. We focus on the design of optical transmitters and receivers, especially a wide-band electrical-to-optical converter and optical-to-electrical converter. With this system, it is important to develop optical and microwave devices which have a wide frequency response combined with flat group delay characteristics in order to improve the quality of the video signals after transmission. We also analyze theoretically the hybrid transmission capacity of AM analog video signals and 64QAM signals for digital video and data, and show the FM modulation parameters needed to realize high quality transmission. An experimental evaluation shows that our designed optical transmitter and receiver achieve high quality for the various channel plans for AM/64QAM hybrid transmission. The system has high received optical sensitivity and a wide optical dynamic range, allowing it to distribute analog video, digital video, and Internet data to many users over a wide area.