Adaptive Rate Control for Video Playback with iSCSI

Abstract

This paper proposes adaptive rate control for MPEG video playback with iSCSI. The control dynamically switches between high-bit rate and low-bit rate video files according to the network load by measuring the data transfer rate on the iSCSI disk from the size of requested video data and the response time. By objective and subjective assessment, we demonstrate the effectiveness of the control.