A System for Precise End-to-End Delay Measurements in Video Communication
This addresses the need for accurate delay measurement in delay-critical applications like teleoperation and autonomous control, but it is incremental as it builds on existing measurement techniques.
The paper tackles the problem of precisely measuring end-to-end delay in video communication, presenting a low-complexity system that achieves a precision of 0.5 milliseconds with a 2kHz sampling rate.
Low delay video transmission is becoming increasingly important. Delay critical, video enabled applications range from teleoperation scenarios such as controlling drones or telesurgery to autonomous control through computer vision algorithms applied on real-time video. To judge the quality of the video transmission in such a system, it is important to be able to precisely measure the end-to-end (E2E) delay of the transmitted video. We present a low-complexity system that automatically takes pairwise independent measurements of E2E delay. The precision can be far below the millisecond order, mainly limited by the sampling rate of the measurement system. In our implementation, we achieve a precision of 0.5 milliseconds with a sampling rate of 2kHz.