Energy Efficient Multimedia Streaming to Mobile Devices - A Survey

Energy conservation in battery powered mobile devices that perform wireless multimedia streaming has been a significant research problem since last decade. This is because these mobile devices consume a lot of power while receiving, decoding and ultimately, presenting the multimedia content. What ma...

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Published in:IEEE Communications surveys and tutorials 2014-01, Vol.16 (1), p.579-597
Main Authors: Hoque, Mohammad Ashraful, Siekkinen, Matti, Nurminen, Jukka K.
Format: Article
Language:English
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Channel Modulation
Energy consumption
Energy Efficiency
Energy management
IEEE 802.11 Standards
Mobile
Mobile communication systems
Mobile handsets
Multimedia
Multimedia communication
Power Consumption
Protocols
Proxy
Receiving
Software
Source Coding
Streaming
Streaming media
Survey
Traffic engineering
Traffic flow
Wireless
Wireless communication
Wireless networks
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Summary:Energy conservation in battery powered mobile devices that perform wireless multimedia streaming has been a significant research problem since last decade. This is because these mobile devices consume a lot of power while receiving, decoding and ultimately, presenting the multimedia content. What makes things worse is the fact that battery technologies have not evolved enough to keep up with the rapid advancement of mobile devices. This survey examines solutions that have been proposed during the last few years, to improve the energy efficiency of wireless multimedia streaming in mobile hand-held devices. We categorize the research work according to different layers of the Internet protocol stack they utilize. Then, we again regroup these studies based on different traffic scheduling and multimedia content adaptation mechanisms. The traffic scheduling category contains those solutions that optimize the wireless receiving energy without changing the actual multimedia content. The second category on the other hand, specifically modifies the content, in order to reduce the energy consumed by the wireless receiver and to decode and view the content. We compare them and provide evidence of the fact that some of these tactics already exist in modern smaprtphones and provide energy savings with real measurements. In addition, we discuss some relevant literature on the complementary problem of energy-aware multimedia delivery from mobile devices and contrast with our target approaches for multimedia transmission to mobile devices.
ISSN:1553-877X
1553-877X
2373-745X
DOI:10.1109/SURV.2012.111412.00051