An Adaptive Video Transmission Mechanism over MEC-Based Content-Centric Networks

Abstract

The rapid growth of video traffic poses serious challenges to the current Internet. Content-Centric Networking (CCN) as a promising candidate has been proposed to reengineer the Internet architecture. The in-network caching and named content communication model of CCN can enhance the video streaming applications and reduce the network workload. Due to the bandwidth-consuming characteristic of video streaming, the aggressive transmission of video data will cause a reduction of overall network efficiency. In this paper, we present an adaptive video transmission mechanism over Mobile Edge Computing- (MEC-) based CCN. The computation and storage resources of the MEC server are utilized to facilitate the video delivery. Our mechanism adopts a scalable video coding scheme to adaptively control transmission rate to cope with the network condition variation. To analyse the equilibrium property of the proposed mechanism, an analytical model is deduced by using network utility function and convex programming. We also take into account the packet loss in wired and wireless links and present a MEC assistant loss recovery algorithm. The experiment results demonstrate the performance improvement of our proposed mechanism.