Investigating Streaming Techniques and Energy Efficiency of Mobile Video Services
This work addresses energy efficiency for mobile video users, but it is incremental as it builds on existing measurement studies.
The study measured traffic and energy consumption of three video streaming services across six smartphones, identifying five delivery techniques that depend on device, player, quality, and service, and found dramatic energy variations, leading to suggestions for improving efficiency.
We report results from a measurement study of three video streaming services, YouTube, Dailymotion and Vimeo on six different smartphones. We measure and analyze the traffic and energy consumption when streaming different quality videos over Wi-Fi and 3G. We identify five different techniques to deliver the video and show that the use of a particular technique depends on the device, player, quality, and service. The energy consumption varies dramatically between devices, services, and video qualities depending on the streaming technique used. As a consequence, we come up with suggestions on how to improve the energy efficiency of mobile video streaming services.