Keywords: network simulation, MPEG video, Evalvid, NS2, PSNR, the fraction of decodable frames
Received January 9, 2006; revised June 19, 2006; accepted August 2, 2006.
Communicated by Chung-Sheng Li.
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Chih-Heng Ke1, Ce-Kuen Shieh2, Wen-Shyang Hwang3 and Artur Ziviani4
1Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering
National Kinmen Institute of Technology
Kinmen, 892 Taiwan
2Department of Electrical Engineering
National Cheng Kung University
Tainan, 701 Taiwan
3Department of Electrical Engineering
National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences
Kaohsiung, 807 Taiwan
4National Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC)
Petropolis, Rio de Janeiro, 25651-075 Brazil
We present a novel and complete tool-set for evaluating the delivery quality of
MPEG video transmissions in simulations of a network environment. This tool-set is
based on the EvalVid framework. We extend the connecting interfaces of EvalVid to replace
its simple error simulation model by a more general network simulator like NS2.
With this combination, researchers and practitioners in general can analyze through
simulation the performance of real video streams, i.e. taking into account the video semantics,
under a large range of network scenarios. To demonstrate the usefulness of our
new tool-set, we point out that it enables the investigation of the relationship between
two popular objective metrics for Quality of Service (QoS) assessment of video quality
delivery: the PSNR (Peak Signal to Noise Ratio) and the fraction of decodable frames.
The results show that the fraction of decodable frames reflects well the behavior of the
PSNR metric, while being less time-consuming. Therefore, the fraction of decodable
frames can be an alternative metric to objectively assess through simulations the delivery
quality of transmission in a network of publicly available video trace files.
Received January 9, 2006; revised June 19, 2006; accepted August 2, 2006.
Communicated by Chung-Sheng Li.