Video Transmission Using Device-to-Device Communications: A Survey

Abstract

In recent years, the growing interest in video-based applications has resulted in a rapid increase in wireless data traffic and meeting the stringent quality-of-experience (QoE) requirements for such type of traffic poses a great challenge given the scarce spectrum. As a consequence, new approaches have been investigated to tackle this problem and one promising solution proposed by researchers is to exploit deviceto-device (D2D) communication in video transmission. D2D communication has been presented as an innovation that can improve the cellular network performance by exploiting the proximity-based service between closely-located devices. It enhances the spectral and energy efficiencies, improves the capacity of the network and reduces the communication delay as well. Despite the above-mentioned advantages, there are some challenges in video transmission over D2D networks that need to be addressed. These issues include proposing methods for improving the quality of video streaming, management of the possible resulting interference between the D2D links and regular cellular links, resource allocation as well as appropriate selection of the mode of operation. Besides, issues related to D2D-based video caching such as clustering, energy consumption and the use of incentive-based schemes have also been discussed. In this paper, we examine the challenges of video streaming over D2D networks and comprehensively review the available solutions proposed in the literature.

Throughput-Outage Scaling Behaviors for Wireless Single-Hop D2D Caching Networks with Physical Model -- Analysis and Derivations

“…Due to the significance of having caching at the wireless edge, the approach has been investigated in different scenarios [8], [13]- [15]. These include caching in BSs [6], caching on devices [7], caching in heterogeneous networks [16], caching in vehicles [17], etc.…”

“…These include caching in BSs [6], caching on devices [7], caching in heterogeneous networks [16], caching in vehicles [17], etc. As caching on devices along with high performance device-to-device (D2D) communications can bring huge benefits to the network without installing new infrastructure, cache-aided wireless D2D networks have been widely discussed in the literature [13]- [15]. While many papers investigate the design and implementation aspects, another set of investigations focuses on characterizing the asymptotic behavior as the number of users N goes to infinity.…”

No-Reference Quality Assessment of In-Capture Distorted Videos

“…In recent years, the increase in devices such as smartphones and tablets has led to an exponential growth in the amount of videos captured and shared on social media like YouTube, Snapchat, Facebook, and Instagram [ 1 , 2 ]. Different forms of distortions can be introduced during the video acquisition and transmission processes.…”

A QoE-Aware Mode Selection Framework for Video Streaming in D2D Networks

“…The authors proposed an algorithm to minimize transmission through the BS to save cost while considering the QoE, which was expressed in terms of the average number of received blocks. For an extensive survey on video steaming over D2D networks, the reader is referred to [28].…”