A Survey on Cloud Video Multicasting Over Mobile Networks

TL;DR

This survey reviews current techniques for multimedia multicasting over mobile networks, focusing on cloud-based video-on-demand applications including cloud gaming, highlighting recent algorithms and solutions.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of multimedia multicasting methods in cloud mobile communications and discusses recent proposed solutions for video-on-demand applications.

Findings

Overview of multimedia multicasting mechanisms in cloud mobile networks

Analysis of algorithms designed for video-on-demand applications

Identification of research gaps and future directions

Abstract

Since multimedia streaming has become very popular research topic in the recent years, this paper surveys the state of art techniques introduced for multimedia multicasting over mobile networks. In this paper, we give an overview of multimedia multicasting mechanisms in respect to cloud mobile communications, and we present some proposed solutions in perspective. We focus on the algorithms designed specifically for the video-on-demand applications. Our study on video-on-demand applications will eventually cover a wide range of applications such as cloud gaming without violating the limited scope of this survey.