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Saving Energy in Mobile Devices for On-Demand Multimedia Streaming -- A Cross-Layer Approach

Multimedia 2014-03-18 v1 Information Theory math.IT

Abstract

This paper proposes a novel energy-efficient multimedia delivery system called EStreamer. First, we study the relationship between buffer size at the client, burst-shaped TCP-based multimedia traffic, and energy consumption of wireless network interfaces in smartphones. Based on the study, we design and implement EStreamer for constant bit rate and rate-adaptive streaming. EStreamer can improve battery lifetime by 3x, 1.5x and 2x while streaming over Wi-Fi, 3G and 4G respectively.

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@article{arxiv.1403.3710,
  title  = {Saving Energy in Mobile Devices for On-Demand Multimedia Streaming -- A Cross-Layer Approach},
  author = {Mohammad Ashraful Hoque and Matti Siekkinen and Jukka K. Nurminen and Sasu Tarkoma and Mika Aalto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.3710},
  year   = {2014}
}

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Accepted in ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (ACM TOMCCAP), November 2013