Reducing Latency for Multimedia Broadcast Services Over Mobile Networks

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Main Authors: Lentisco, C. M., Bellido, L., Cárdenas, A., Moyano, R. F., Fernández, D.
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Published: 2024
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author Lentisco, C. M.
Bellido, L.
Cárdenas, A.
Moyano, R. F.
Fernández, D.
author_facet Lentisco, C. M.
Bellido, L.
Cárdenas, A.
Moyano, R. F.
Fernández, D.
contents Multimedia services over mobile networks pose several challenges, such as the efficient management of radio resources or the latency induced by network delays and buffering requirements on the multimedia players. In Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks, the definition of multimedia broadcast services over a common radio channel addresses the shortage of radio resources but introduces the problem of network error recovery. In order to address network errors on LTE multimedia broadcast services, the current standards propose the combined use of forward error correction and unicast recovery techniques at the application level. This paper shows how to efficiently synchronize the broadcasting server and the multimedia players and how to reduce service latency by limiting the multimedia player buffer length. This is accomplished by analyzing the relation between the different parameters of the LTE multimedia broadcast service, the multimedia player buffer length, and service interruptions. A case study is simulated to confirm how the quality of the multimedia service is improved by applying our proposals.
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spellingShingle Reducing Latency for Multimedia Broadcast Services Over Mobile Networks
Lentisco, C. M.
Bellido, L.
Cárdenas, A.
Moyano, R. F.
Fernández, D.
Multimedia
Multimedia services over mobile networks pose several challenges, such as the efficient management of radio resources or the latency induced by network delays and buffering requirements on the multimedia players. In Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks, the definition of multimedia broadcast services over a common radio channel addresses the shortage of radio resources but introduces the problem of network error recovery. In order to address network errors on LTE multimedia broadcast services, the current standards propose the combined use of forward error correction and unicast recovery techniques at the application level. This paper shows how to efficiently synchronize the broadcasting server and the multimedia players and how to reduce service latency by limiting the multimedia player buffer length. This is accomplished by analyzing the relation between the different parameters of the LTE multimedia broadcast service, the multimedia player buffer length, and service interruptions. A case study is simulated to confirm how the quality of the multimedia service is improved by applying our proposals.
title Reducing Latency for Multimedia Broadcast Services Over Mobile Networks
topic Multimedia
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.06424