A QoE-Oriented Scheduling Scheme for HTTP Streaming Service in LTE System

摘要

In LTE system, HTTP streaming services sometimes experience video quality deterioration because of the constraint of available wireless resources, which leads to reduce of Quality of Experience (QoE). In this paper, we propose a new scheduling scheme which is QoE-oriented from user's perceptive to improve the performance of HTTP streaming service in a LTE system. First of all, we adopt the jerkiness, frame freezing for example, perceived at an end user as the prominent QoE factor and implement a jerkiness measuring algorithm on end devices. Secondly, we implement a prioritized traffic flow scheduling algorithm at the base station, and put the end users who experience the maximum jerkiness to be scheduled with the highest priority. Finally, we compare the performance of the proposed QoE-oriented scheme with the traditional scheduling algorithm (i.e. Round Robin scheduling algorithm) in terms of jerkiness for HTTP streaming service. Simulation result shows that the proposed scheme can dramatically improve QoE from user's perspective by effectively decrease the jerkiness of HTTP streaming video.