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A traffic-camera assisted cache-and-relay routing for live video stream delivery in vehicular ad hoc networks

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With the development of the Internet of Things, installation of smart mobile terminal in vehicle has become more and more popular, and consequently, how to provide services for the public utilizing vehicular ad hoc networks has aroused great interest in research and industrial areas. Among them, the kind of services supported by live video streaming attracts more attention because of its advantages. However, due to the high vehicular speed, frequent disconnection and dynamic topology, it’s difficult to guarantee the low-delay delivery of real-time video data, and there is hardly any scheme that can deliver such kind of data with satisfied quality. In this paper, we take fully advantage of the existing wireless enabled traffic cameras, and propose a novel traffic-camera assisted routing for video delivery, which can deliver live video stream to mobile target vehicle with minimal start-up delay while satisfying the required visual quality and playback performance through optimal buffering points selection and intelligent relay among them. The trace-driven simulations demonstrate that our strategy outperforms existing solutions greatly.

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  1. Please note that we only focus on the kind of video data which is encoded using hybrid video codecs, such as MPEG-2 or H.264/AVC. This is meaningful because the vast majority of videos used commonly are encoded by this means.

  2. Please note that this assumption is just to simplify the formulation, and in fact, there are several error-concealment algorithms on the decoder side, which can decode a frame with acceptable visual quality even if some packets are not delivered.

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The research reported in this paper was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 61332005; the Funds for Creative Research Groups of China under Grant No. 61421061; the Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China under Grant No. 20120005130002; the Cosponsored Project of Beijing Committee of Education, and Beijing Training Project For The Leading Talents in S&T(ljrc201502); the Joint Funds of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. U1404602,U1404615, U1404611); the Key Science and Research Program in University of Henan Province (16A460018); the Program for Science & Technology Innovation Talents in the University of Henan Province under Grant No. 16HASTIT035; Youth Science Foundation of Henan University of Science and Technology.

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    Honghai Wu & Huahong Ma

  2. School of Computer and Science, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China

    Honghai Wu, Liang Liu & Huadong Ma

  3. School of Computer and Information Engineering, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang, China

    Peiyan Yuan

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Wu, H., Ma, H., Liu, L. et al. A traffic-camera assisted cache-and-relay routing for live video stream delivery in vehicular ad hoc networks. Wireless Netw 23, 2051–2067 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-016-1272-5

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