Profiling energy consumption of DASH video streaming over 4G LTE networks

Jingyu Zhang, Gan Fang, Chunyi Peng, Minyi Guo, Sheng Wei, Viswanathan Swaminathan

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Abstract

Video streaming is a major source of unprecedented traffic growth in mobile networks, especially in high-speed 4G LTE networks. However, video streaming also poses a critical challenge on energy consumption. The battery-on smartphones and tablets can not sustain active online video streaming for several hours over cellular networks. In this paper, we seek to understand how DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) based video streaming can be energy efficient in the context of LTE networks. We profile the impacts of different streaming strategies and configurations (i.e., segment length and buffer size) on energy consumption. We analyze radio resource control (RRC) to explain and quantify their impacts. Our measurements in real LTE networks show that there still exists a large saving space (more than 30%) for us to improve energy efficiency of mobile devices using appropriate DASH settings. The saving space in some extreme cases can be even larger.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 8th International Workshop onMobile Video, MoVid 2016
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages13-18
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781450343572
DOIs
StatePublished - May 10 2016
Externally publishedYes
Event8th ACM Workshop on Mobile Video, MoVid 2016 - Klagenfurt, Austria
Duration: May 13 2016 → …

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 8th International Workshop onMobile Video, MoVid 2016

Other

Other8th ACM Workshop on Mobile Video, MoVid 2016
Country/TerritoryAustria
CityKlagenfurt
Period5/13/16 → …

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Human-Computer Interaction

Keywords

  • DASH
  • Energy saving
  • LTE
  • Power consumption
  • Video streaming

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