THE LTEVIDSIM - THE LTEVIDSIM - LTE VIDEO TRANSMISSION AND QUALITY EVALUATION SIMULATOR

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The immense growth of mobile video traffic due to significant user demand has sparked a great deal of research on how to provide better-delivered video quality through wireless networks. The mobile wireless network is characterized by harsh transmission conditions in terms of bandwidth limitation, device mobility, power constraints, time varying and an error prone environment, resulting in significant amount of loss and delay. It is challenging to transmit and access multimedia data over wireless communication channels. Some distortions may take place in the video at the time of transmission or processing. Here comes the need to evaluate the video delivered quality. This paper addresses the problem of evaluating the quality of video sequences encoded for and transmitted over Long Term Evolution (LTE) mobile network. The LTEVidSim is a MATLAB-based simulation tool-set for an evaluation of the quality of video transmitted over a simulated LTE network. It integrates the EvalVid and the Vienna LTE System Level Simulator. In this study, we analyse some of the thought-provoking research questions for video streaming over LTE network, and explain by some research examples how LTEVidSim can be applied.
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LTE, LTEVidSim, video streaming, video quality
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