Application of Multiple Description Coding for Adaptive QoS Mechanism for Mobile Cloud Computing

Abstract

Multimedia transmission over cloud infrastructure is a hot research topic worldwide. It is very strongly related to video streaming, VoIP, mobile networks, and computer networks. The goal is a reliable integration of telephony, video and audio transmission, computing and broadband transmission based on cloud computing. One right approach to pave the way for mobile multimedia and cloud computing is Multiple Description Coding (MDC), i.e. the solution would be: TCP/IP and similar protocols to be used for transmission of text files, and Multiple Description Coding “Send and Forget” algorithm to be used as transmission method for Multimedia over the cloud. Multiple Description Coding would improve the Quality of Service and would provide new service of rate adaptive streaming. This paper presents a new approach for improving the quality of multimedia and other services in the cloud, by using Multiple Description Coding (MDC). Firsty MDC Send and Forget Algorithm is compared with the existing protocols such as TCP/IP, UDP, RTP, etc. Then the Achievable Rate Region for MDC system is evaluated. Finally, a new subset of Quality of Service that considers the blocking in multi-terminal multimedia network and fidelity losses is considered.