Collaborative Resource Exchanges for Peer-to-Peer

Video Streaming Over Wireless Mesh Networks

ECE-693
Koushik A M

Background:
Wireless multihop mesh networks has been applied in:
1. Video conferencing,
2. On-demand distributed services
3. Surveilance etc.

Many of the multimedia applications involve P2P transmission.

Link over P2P is dynamic so streaming should adapt to the variations.

Background:
Resource reservation for streaming.
Information exchange between peers.
Resource allocate on strategy impacts and impacted by other peers.
Information exchange:
Wireless resources (used, available)
Channel condition
Qos

VIDEO SUB-FLOWS AND QUALITY-RATE MODEL:

Partitioning Scalable Bitstream Into Sub-Flows:

Partition scalable video into several prioritized sub-flows.

Each subflow is viewed as a separate quality layer.
Each subflow is admitted to network independently.
Each aggregated flow, y is represented as set

Total number of subflows, N and each sub flow

and

with (1

VIDEO SUB-FLOWS AND QUALITY-RATE MODEL:

Quality-Rate Model : Utility for Collaborative Resource Exchange:
Incremental quality is provided by decoding of an individual sub-flow using:

Quality ,

received by aggregated flow

the sub flow.

is

depends on encoding parameters

VIDEO SUB-FLOWS AND QUALITY-RATE MODEL :

Quality-Rate Model : Utility for Collaborative Resource Exchange:

we have indicator function,

-1 : sub-flow admission decision hasnt made.

1 : sub-flow is admitted.
0 : sub-flow is rejected.

VIDEO SUB-FLOWS AND QUALITY-RATE MODEL :

:

Maximize the minimum quality experienced by any aggregated flow in the

system:

COLLABORATIVE RESOURCE EXCHANGES

Determince which sub-flow should be admitted and through which path

based on
Channel condition.
Bit-rate requirements of each subflow.

Goodput experienced by each sub-flow

is the maximum achievable rate and

is the packet error probability .

COLLABORATIVE RESOURCE EXCHANGES

Sub-flow admission control:

To maximize

Arrange subflows in the descending order, .

Admit subflows according to the order.

Admit subflows according to quality layer.

First admit quality-1 sub flows for all aggregated flows.

Within the same quality layer admit sublows in descending order according
to

COLLABORATIVE RESOURCE EXCHANGES

Collabarative Distributed Path Provisioning:

Source peers collaboratively determine the sorted list of subflows in decreasing order.
For each sub-flow, the corresponding source peer determines the available path.
If multiple path exists, the path with small congestion is selected.

Non-Collabarative Distributed Path Provisioning:

Source peer determine paths before other peers determine the path.

Cross layer design:

Application layer:
(Packet scheduling): Packets are ordered interms of increasing order of decoding
deadlines.

MAC layer:

Optimal Txn limit:

Physical layer:
Adaptive modulation according to variation in the channel conditions.

Observations from Simulation Results:

Monotonic relationship b/w

wheather we optimize

and quality layers, Results are much similar

The distributed collaborative alg have a performance similar to centralized

exhaustive search.
Collaborative approach outperforms the non-collaborative approach and have near
optimal performance.
With dynamic cross-layer optimization, achieved gain 2-5db over fixed retransmission
and modulation.
Addition of additional flows gracefully reduce the quality using collaborative
approach.

Possible improvements:

Consider channel SINR due to interference from neighbor peers.

Multicast routing.
Network coding

THANK
YOU

COLLABORATIVE RESOURCE EXCHANGES

Information exchange overheads:

o First message: sub-flow bit rates,

, priorities

o 2nd message: link and channel conditions (SINR).

o 3rd message: Path P_x selected for each subflow f_x.