An extensible framework was proposed to implement the hierarchical and adaptive control and feedback mechanism of layered MPEG-4 video multicast transmission in DirectShow architecture. In our framework, layers of MPE...An extensible framework was proposed to implement the hierarchical and adaptive control and feedback mechanism of layered MPEG-4 video multicast transmission in DirectShow architecture. In our framework, layers of MPEG-4 video and FEC data are wrapped dynamically in RTP packets to pass through the heterogeneous network effectively. An adaptive control center is designed to control the actions of the related components dynamically according to varying resources availability on local host and network. This effective and adaptive framework can be used to instruct the implementation of applications based on layered MPEG-4 video multicast transmission and other designs of multimedia application frameworks.展开更多
With the development of IP multicast technology, the best use of network bandwidth can be achieved, and IP video broadcasting can be implemented. This paper introduces the principle of IP multicast technology, and pre...With the development of IP multicast technology, the best use of network bandwidth can be achieved, and IP video broadcasting can be implemented. This paper introduces the principle of IP multicast technology, and presents an implementation of IP video multicasting in LAN based on Winsock2. Problems in IP multicast are also analyzed in brief.展开更多
A novel video data authentication model based on digital video watermarking and MAC （message authentication code） in multicast protocol is proposed in this paper, The digital watermarking which composes of the MAC o...A novel video data authentication model based on digital video watermarking and MAC （message authentication code） in multicast protocol is proposed in this paper, The digital watermarking which composes of the MAC of the significant vid eo content, the key and instant authentication data is embedded into the insignificant video component by the MLUT （modified look-up table） video watermarking technology. We explain a method that does not require storage of each data packet for a time, thus making receiver not vulnerable to DOS （denial of service） attack. So the video packets can be authenticated instantly without large volume buffer in the receivers. TESLA （timed efficient stream loss tolerant authentication） does not explain how to select the suitable value for d, which is an important parameter in multicast source authentication. So we give a method to calculate the key disclosure delay （number of intervals）. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithms improve the performance of data source authentication in multicast.展开更多
Multimedia data traffic occupies more than 70% of the Internet traffic and is still growing. On-demand video is already a major video content platform and private broadcast is getting more popular. In addition to this...Multimedia data traffic occupies more than 70% of the Internet traffic and is still growing. On-demand video is already a major video content platform and private broadcast is getting more popular. In addition to this, virtual reality （VR） and augmented reali- ty （AR） data traffic is increasing very fast. To provide the good quality of the multimediaservice, huge amount of resource is need- ed because users ＇ service experience is usually proportional to the video rates they can receive. Moreover, the variation of the bandwidth also affects to the users＇ experience, w-hile more users w-ant to use their mobile devices to see multimedia data by ac- cessing the network through wireless links, such as Long Term Evolution （LTE） and Wi-Fi. Therefore, better spectral efficiency during wireless transmission and video rate adaptation to provide better quality to users are in great demand. Multicast system is one of the technologies that can improve the spectral efficiency drastically, and Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP （DASH） is one of the most popular video rate adaptation platforms. In this paper, we investigate the state-of-the-art video multicast technol- ogies. LTE supports the multicast service through evolved Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service （eMBMS） systems, and there are different algorithms to perform the video multicast along with adaptive video quality control. The algorithms include the proce- dure to decide the video rates, resource allocations, and user groupings. Moreover, we propose a novel approach to improve the quality of experience for DASH-VR video multicast systems.展开更多
In recent years,Software Defined Networking(SDN)has become an important candidate for communication infrastructure in smart cities.It produces a drastic increase in the need for delivery of video services that are of ...In recent years,Software Defined Networking(SDN)has become an important candidate for communication infrastructure in smart cities.It produces a drastic increase in the need for delivery of video services that are of high resolution,multiview,and large-scale in nature.However,this entity gets easily influenced by heterogeneous behaviour of the user’s wireless link features that might reduce the quality of video stream for few or all clients.The development of SDN allows the emergence of new possibilities for complicated controlling of video conferences.Besides,multicast routing protocol with multiple constraints in terms of Quality of Service(QoS)is a Nondeterministic Polynomial time(NP)hard problem which can be solved only with the help of metaheuristic optimization algorithms.With this motivation,the current research paper presents a new Improved BlackWidow Optimization with Levy Distribution model(IBWO-LD)-based multicast routing protocol for smart cities.The presented IBWO-LD model aims at minimizing the energy consumption and bandwidth utilization while at the same time accomplish improved quality of video streams that the clients receive.Besides,a priority-based scheduling and classifier model is designed to allocate multicast request based on the type of applications and deadline constraints.A detailed experimental analysis was carried out to ensure the outcomes improved under different aspects.The results from comprehensive comparative analysis highlighted the superiority of the proposed IBWO-LD model over other compared methods.展开更多
The authors propose a novel method for transporting multi-view videos that aims to keep the bandwidth requirements on both end-users and servers as low as possible. The method is based on application layer multicast, ...The authors propose a novel method for transporting multi-view videos that aims to keep the bandwidth requirements on both end-users and servers as low as possible. The method is based on application layer multicast, where each end point re- ceives only a selected number of views required for rendering video from its current viewpoint at any given time. The set of selected videos changes in real time as the user’s viewpoint changes because of head or eye movements. Techniques for reducing the black-outs during fast viewpoint changes were investigated. The performance of the approach was studied through network experiments.展开更多
Providing services on demand is a major contributing factor to drive the increasingly development of the software defined network. However, it should supply all the current popular applications before it really attain...Providing services on demand is a major contributing factor to drive the increasingly development of the software defined network. However, it should supply all the current popular applications before it really attains widespread development. Multiple Description Coding(MDC) video applications, as a popular application in the current network, should be reasonably supported in this novel network virtualization environment. In this paper, we address this issue to assign MDC video application into virtual networks with an efficient centralized algorithm(CAMDV). Since this problem is an NP-hard problem, we design an algorithm that can effectively balance the user satisfaction and network resource cost. Previous work just builds a global multicast tree for each description to connect all the destination nodes by breadth-first search strategy or shortest path tree algorithm. But those methods could not achieve an optimal balance or a high-level user satisfaction. By introducing the hierarchical clustering scheme, our algorithm decomposes the whole mapping procedure into multicast tree construction and multipath description distribution. A serial of simulation experiments show that our centralized algorithm could achieve a better performance in balancing the user satisfaction and average mapping cost in comparison with its rivals.展开更多
The evolution of social network and multimedia technologies encourage more and more people to generate and upload visual information, which leads to the generation of large-scale video data. Therefore, preeminent comp...The evolution of social network and multimedia technologies encourage more and more people to generate and upload visual information, which leads to the generation of large-scale video data. Therefore, preeminent compression technologies are highly desired to facilitate the storage and transmission of these tremendous video data for a wide variety of applications. In this paper, a systematic review of the recent advances for large-scale video compression （LSVC） is presented. Specifically, fast video coding algorithms and effective models to improve video compression efficiency are introduced in detail, since coding complexity and compression efficiency are two important factors to evaluate video coding approaches. Finally, the challenges and fu- ture research trends for LSVC are discussed.展开更多
基金the National Natural Science Foundation(J1400B006)
文摘An extensible framework was proposed to implement the hierarchical and adaptive control and feedback mechanism of layered MPEG-4 video multicast transmission in DirectShow architecture. In our framework, layers of MPEG-4 video and FEC data are wrapped dynamically in RTP packets to pass through the heterogeneous network effectively. An adaptive control center is designed to control the actions of the related components dynamically according to varying resources availability on local host and network. This effective and adaptive framework can be used to instruct the implementation of applications based on layered MPEG-4 video multicast transmission and other designs of multimedia application frameworks.
文摘With the development of IP multicast technology, the best use of network bandwidth can be achieved, and IP video broadcasting can be implemented. This paper introduces the principle of IP multicast technology, and presents an implementation of IP video multicasting in LAN based on Winsock2. Problems in IP multicast are also analyzed in brief.
基金Supported bythe National Natural Science Foundationof China (60175001)
文摘A novel video data authentication model based on digital video watermarking and MAC （message authentication code） in multicast protocol is proposed in this paper, The digital watermarking which composes of the MAC of the significant vid eo content, the key and instant authentication data is embedded into the insignificant video component by the MLUT （modified look-up table） video watermarking technology. We explain a method that does not require storage of each data packet for a time, thus making receiver not vulnerable to DOS （denial of service） attack. So the video packets can be authenticated instantly without large volume buffer in the receivers. TESLA （timed efficient stream loss tolerant authentication） does not explain how to select the suitable value for d, which is an important parameter in multicast source authentication. So we give a method to calculate the key disclosure delay （number of intervals）. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithms improve the performance of data source authentication in multicast.
文摘Multimedia data traffic occupies more than 70% of the Internet traffic and is still growing. On-demand video is already a major video content platform and private broadcast is getting more popular. In addition to this, virtual reality （VR） and augmented reali- ty （AR） data traffic is increasing very fast. To provide the good quality of the multimediaservice, huge amount of resource is need- ed because users ＇ service experience is usually proportional to the video rates they can receive. Moreover, the variation of the bandwidth also affects to the users＇ experience, w-hile more users w-ant to use their mobile devices to see multimedia data by ac- cessing the network through wireless links, such as Long Term Evolution （LTE） and Wi-Fi. Therefore, better spectral efficiency during wireless transmission and video rate adaptation to provide better quality to users are in great demand. Multicast system is one of the technologies that can improve the spectral efficiency drastically, and Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP （DASH） is one of the most popular video rate adaptation platforms. In this paper, we investigate the state-of-the-art video multicast technol- ogies. LTE supports the multicast service through evolved Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service （eMBMS） systems, and there are different algorithms to perform the video multicast along with adaptive video quality control. The algorithms include the proce- dure to decide the video rates, resource allocations, and user groupings. Moreover, we propose a novel approach to improve the quality of experience for DASH-VR video multicast systems.
基金The authors extend their appreciation to the Deanship of Scientific Research at King Khalid University for funding this work under Grant Number(RGP.1/282/42)Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University Researchers Supporting Project Number(PNURSP2022R191),Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University,Riyadh,Saudi Arabia.
文摘In recent years,Software Defined Networking(SDN)has become an important candidate for communication infrastructure in smart cities.It produces a drastic increase in the need for delivery of video services that are of high resolution,multiview,and large-scale in nature.However,this entity gets easily influenced by heterogeneous behaviour of the user’s wireless link features that might reduce the quality of video stream for few or all clients.The development of SDN allows the emergence of new possibilities for complicated controlling of video conferences.Besides,multicast routing protocol with multiple constraints in terms of Quality of Service(QoS)is a Nondeterministic Polynomial time(NP)hard problem which can be solved only with the help of metaheuristic optimization algorithms.With this motivation,the current research paper presents a new Improved BlackWidow Optimization with Levy Distribution model(IBWO-LD)-based multicast routing protocol for smart cities.The presented IBWO-LD model aims at minimizing the energy consumption and bandwidth utilization while at the same time accomplish improved quality of video streams that the clients receive.Besides,a priority-based scheduling and classifier model is designed to allocate multicast request based on the type of applications and deadline constraints.A detailed experimental analysis was carried out to ensure the outcomes improved under different aspects.The results from comprehensive comparative analysis highlighted the superiority of the proposed IBWO-LD model over other compared methods.
基金Project (No. 511568) supported by the European Commissionwithin Framework Program 6 with the acronym 3DTV
文摘The authors propose a novel method for transporting multi-view videos that aims to keep the bandwidth requirements on both end-users and servers as low as possible. The method is based on application layer multicast, where each end point re- ceives only a selected number of views required for rendering video from its current viewpoint at any given time. The set of selected videos changes in real time as the user’s viewpoint changes because of head or eye movements. Techniques for reducing the black-outs during fast viewpoint changes were investigated. The performance of the approach was studied through network experiments.
基金supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (2012CB315903)the National Science and Technology Support Program (2014BAH24F01)+3 种基金the Program for Key Science and Technology Innovation Team of Zhejiang Province (2011R50010-21, 2013TD20)863 Program of China (2015AA016103)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61379118)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
文摘Providing services on demand is a major contributing factor to drive the increasingly development of the software defined network. However, it should supply all the current popular applications before it really attains widespread development. Multiple Description Coding(MDC) video applications, as a popular application in the current network, should be reasonably supported in this novel network virtualization environment. In this paper, we address this issue to assign MDC video application into virtual networks with an efficient centralized algorithm(CAMDV). Since this problem is an NP-hard problem, we design an algorithm that can effectively balance the user satisfaction and network resource cost. Previous work just builds a global multicast tree for each description to connect all the destination nodes by breadth-first search strategy or shortest path tree algorithm. But those methods could not achieve an optimal balance or a high-level user satisfaction. By introducing the hierarchical clustering scheme, our algorithm decomposes the whole mapping procedure into multicast tree construction and multipath description distribution. A serial of simulation experiments show that our centralized algorithm could achieve a better performance in balancing the user satisfaction and average mapping cost in comparison with its rivals.
基金This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China （Grant Nos. 61622115 and 61472281）, the Program for Professor of Special Appointment （Eastern Scholar） at Shanghai Institutions of Higher Learning （GZ2015005）, and Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Industrial Vision Perception ＆ Intelligent Computing （ 17DZ2251600）.
文摘The evolution of social network and multimedia technologies encourage more and more people to generate and upload visual information, which leads to the generation of large-scale video data. Therefore, preeminent compression technologies are highly desired to facilitate the storage and transmission of these tremendous video data for a wide variety of applications. In this paper, a systematic review of the recent advances for large-scale video compression （LSVC） is presented. Specifically, fast video coding algorithms and effective models to improve video compression efficiency are introduced in detail, since coding complexity and compression efficiency are two important factors to evaluate video coding approaches. Finally, the challenges and fu- ture research trends for LSVC are discussed.
