Explore the Impact of Cellular Resource Allocation on Mobile UHD Video Streaming over 5G UDN

Xinjing Yuan, Lingjun Pu, Xiaohang Xu, Jingdong Xu

Abstract: The incoming 5G cellular network is stepping into a densification era, where various kinds of base stations are densely deployed to provide fruitful mobile services such as video streaming. In order to improve the performance of these mobile services, the way to optimally allocate cellular resources for the network-wide users is a crucial problem. In this paper, we consider the mobile Ultra-High-Definition (UHD) video streaming service, envision a 5G ultra dense network (UDN) consisting of a series of Video Base Stations (VBSs) dedicated to video streaming services for multiple users, and mainly explore the impact of cellular resource allocation on video streaming. We incorporate two important video streaming states into cellular resource allocation and formulate a streaming-aware and fairness-aware cellular resource allocation problem. To deal with the formulated problem, we provide a novel graph transformation and design an optimal matching algorithm which can be solved in polynomial time. Extensive trace-driven simulations validate the superior performance of the proposed algorithm under different user mobility patterns and network scales.