APB: An Adaptive Playback Buffer Scheme for Wireless Streaming Media

Wanqing TU; Weijia JIA

doi:10.1093/ietcom/e88-b.10.4030

APB: An Adaptive Playback Buffer Scheme for Wireless Streaming Media

Wanqing TU, Weijia JIA

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The wireless streaming media communications are fragile to the delay jitter because the conditions and requirements vary frequently with the users' mobility. Buffering is a typical way to reduce the delay jitter of media packets before the playback, however, it will incur a longer end-to-end delay. Our motivation in this paper is to improve the balance between the elimination of delay jitter and the decrease of end-to-end delay. We propose a novel adaptive playback buffer (APB) based on the probing scheme. By utilizing the probing scheme, the instantaneous network situations are collected, and then the delay margin and the delay jitter margin are employed to calculate the step length (sl) which is used to adjust the playback buffer in each time. The adaptive adjustment to the playback buffer in APB enables the continuous and real-time representation of streaming media at the receiver. Unlike the previous studies, the novelty and contributions of the paper are: a) Accuracy: by employing the instantaneous network information, the adjustment to the playback buffer correctly reflects the current network situations and therefore achieves the improved balance between the elimination of delay jitter and the decrease of end-to-end delay; Hence, APB adjustment is accurate in terms of improving such balance; b) Efficiency: by utilizing the simple probing scheme, APB achieves the current network situations without the complex mathematic predictions, which enables the adjustment to be more timely and efficient. Performance data obtained through extensive simulations show that our APB is effective to reduce both delay jitter and playback buffer delay.

Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E88-B No.10 pp.4030-4039

Publication Date: 2005/10/01

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DOI: 10.1093/ietcom/e88-b.10.4030

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Wanqing TU, Weijia JIA, "APB: An Adaptive Playback Buffer Scheme for Wireless Streaming Media" in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications, vol. E88-B, no. 10, pp. 4030-4039, October 2005, doi: 10.1093/ietcom/e88-b.10.4030.
Abstract: The wireless streaming media communications are fragile to the delay jitter because the conditions and requirements vary frequently with the users' mobility. Buffering is a typical way to reduce the delay jitter of media packets before the playback, however, it will incur a longer end-to-end delay. Our motivation in this paper is to improve the balance between the elimination of delay jitter and the decrease of end-to-end delay. We propose a novel adaptive playback buffer (APB) based on the probing scheme. By utilizing the probing scheme, the instantaneous network situations are collected, and then the delay margin and the delay jitter margin are employed to calculate the step length (sl) which is used to adjust the playback buffer in each time. The adaptive adjustment to the playback buffer in APB enables the continuous and real-time representation of streaming media at the receiver. Unlike the previous studies, the novelty and contributions of the paper are: a) Accuracy: by employing the instantaneous network information, the adjustment to the playback buffer correctly reflects the current network situations and therefore achieves the improved balance between the elimination of delay jitter and the decrease of end-to-end delay; Hence, APB adjustment is accurate in terms of improving such balance; b) Efficiency: by utilizing the simple probing scheme, APB achieves the current network situations without the complex mathematic predictions, which enables the adjustment to be more timely and efficient. Performance data obtained through extensive simulations show that our APB is effective to reduce both delay jitter and playback buffer delay.
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