TY - GEN
T1 - Performance Evaluation of Low-Latency Live Streaming of MPEG-DASH UHD video over Commercial 5G NSA/SA Network
AU - Arunruangsirilert, Kasidis
AU - Wei, Bo
AU - Song, Hang
AU - Katto, Jiro
N1 - Funding Information:
ACKNOWLEDGMENT This work was supported in part by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science KAKENHI (Grant No. 20K14740), in part by Waseda University Grant for Special Research Projects (No. 2021C-132 and No. 2021E-013), in part by NICT (Grant No. 03801), Japan, and in part by JST, PRESTO (Grant No. JPMJPR21PB). Additionally, the authors would like to thank PEI Xiaohong of Qtrun Technologies for providing AirScreen to help with the result collection in this paper.
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - 5G Standalone (SA) is the goal of the 5G evolution, which aims to provide higher throughput and lower latency than the existing LTE network. One of the main applications of 5G is the real-time distribution of Ultra High-Definition (UHD) content with a resolution of 4K or 8K. In Q2/2021, Advanced Info Service (AIS), the biggest operator in Thailand, launched 5G SA, providing both 5G SA/NSA service nationwide in addition to the existing LTE network. While many parts of the world are still in process of rolling out the first phase of 5G in Non-Standalone (NSA) mode, 5G SA in Thailand already covers more than 76% of the population. In this paper, UHD video will be a real-time live streaming via MPEG-DASH over different mobile network technologies with minimal buffer size to provide the lowest latency. Then, performance such as the number of dropped segments, MAC throughput, and latency are evaluated in various situations such as stationary, moving in the urban area, moving at high speed, and also an ideal condition with maximum SINR. It has been found that 5G SA can deliver more than 95% of the UHD video segment successfully within the required time window in all situations, while 5G NSA produced mixed results depending on the condition of the LTE network. The result also reveals that the LTE network failed to deliver more than 20 % of the video segment within the deadline, which shows that 5G SA is absolutely necessary for low-latency UHD video streaming and 5G NSA may not be good enough for such task as it relies on the legacy control signal.
AB - 5G Standalone (SA) is the goal of the 5G evolution, which aims to provide higher throughput and lower latency than the existing LTE network. One of the main applications of 5G is the real-time distribution of Ultra High-Definition (UHD) content with a resolution of 4K or 8K. In Q2/2021, Advanced Info Service (AIS), the biggest operator in Thailand, launched 5G SA, providing both 5G SA/NSA service nationwide in addition to the existing LTE network. While many parts of the world are still in process of rolling out the first phase of 5G in Non-Standalone (NSA) mode, 5G SA in Thailand already covers more than 76% of the population. In this paper, UHD video will be a real-time live streaming via MPEG-DASH over different mobile network technologies with minimal buffer size to provide the lowest latency. Then, performance such as the number of dropped segments, MAC throughput, and latency are evaluated in various situations such as stationary, moving in the urban area, moving at high speed, and also an ideal condition with maximum SINR. It has been found that 5G SA can deliver more than 95% of the UHD video segment successfully within the required time window in all situations, while 5G NSA produced mixed results depending on the condition of the LTE network. The result also reveals that the LTE network failed to deliver more than 20 % of the video segment within the deadline, which shows that 5G SA is absolutely necessary for low-latency UHD video streaming and 5G NSA may not be good enough for such task as it relies on the legacy control signal.
KW - 5G SA
KW - 5G Standalone
KW - live streaming
KW - loss
KW - low-latency
KW - MPEG-DASH
KW - UHD
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U2 - 10.1109/ICCCN54977.2022.9868877
DO - 10.1109/ICCCN54977.2022.9868877
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85138382993
T3 - Proceedings - International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, ICCCN
BT - ICCCN 2022 - 31st International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 31st International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, ICCCN 2022
Y2 - 25 July 2022 through 27 July 2022
ER -