Métrica para análise da qualidade de vídeo transmitido em redes sem fio / Metrics to analyze the quality of videos transmitted through wireless networks
AUTOR(ES)
Edizon Eduardo Basseto Junior
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2008
RESUMO
The goal of this work is to propose a metric to analyze the quality of videos transmitted through wireless networks. A wireless network is a degenerative means to transmit data given its huge instability, which affects transmitted videos. The present proposal adds a technical network parameter, known as jitter, to clients opinion. For these studies a video was streamed through a RF emulation testbed, which can emulate the IEEE wireless networks (WLAN) 802.11b and 802.11g standards. The experiments were done by streaming a DVD, with known characteristics, from a server to a workstation, passing through the testbed. This is capable to concentrate, in a controlled way, the wireless signal into a coaxial cable. With the possibility to control the signal level of the carrier, twelve scenarios were developed and studied: video transmissions with maximum and minimum signal levels, and also with the signal level characterized as Rayleigh distribution, were done for each of the two IEEE standards measures. Under the same signal conditions, I analyzed the video streaming with UDP traffic sent together. The results confirm the action of jitter in the degeneration of the received video, which justifies the use of jitter in the proposed metric. The results also show that the 802.11g networks work a little better than 802.11b for video streaming, but none of them showed a good performance when the UDP traffic was sent together. A questionnaire has also been developed, with the purpose of analyzing the streaming subjectively. Those two factors (jitter and subjective analysis) result in an equation that can be applied to a MOS scale making it possible to numerically define the quality of the video transmission.
ASSUNTO(S)
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