Bones: Near-optimal neural-enhanced video streaming

Lingdong Wang, Simran Singh, Jacob Chakareski, Mohammad Hajiesmaili, Ramesh K. Sitaraman

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Abstract

Accessing high-quality video content can be challenging due to insufficient and unstable network bandwidth. Recent advances in neural enhancement have shown promising results in improving the quality of degraded videos through deep learning. Neural-Enhanced Streaming (NES) incorporates this new approach into video streaming, allowing users to download low-quality video segments and then enhance them to obtain high-quality content without violating the playback of the video stream. We introduce BONES, an NES control algorithm that jointly manages the network and computational resources to maximize the quality of experience (QoE) of the user. BONES formulates NES as a Lyapunov optimization problem and solves it in an online manner with near-optimal performance, making it the first NES algorithm to provide a theoretical performance guarantee. Comprehensive experimental results indicate that BONES increases QoE by 5% to 20% over state-of-the-art algorithms with minimal overhead. Our code is available at https://github.com/UMass-LIDS/bones.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationSIGMETRICS/PERFORMANCE 2024 - Abstracts of the 2024 ACM SIGMETRICS/IFIP PERFORMANCE Joint International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages61-62
Number of pages2
ISBN (Electronic)9798400706240
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 10 2024
Event2024 ACM SIGMETRICS/IFIP Performance Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, SIGMETRICS/PERFORMANCE 2024 - Venice, Italy
Duration: Jun 10 2024Jun 14 2024

Publication series

NameSIGMETRICS/PERFORMANCE 2024 - Abstracts of the 2024 ACM SIGMETRICS/IFIP PERFORMANCE Joint International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems

Conference

Conference2024 ACM SIGMETRICS/IFIP Performance Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, SIGMETRICS/PERFORMANCE 2024
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityVenice
Period6/10/246/14/24

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Hardware and Architecture

Keywords

  • adaptive bitrate streaming
  • lyapunov optimization
  • neural enhancement
  • super-resolution

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