Patent ID: 9538220
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04N,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for degradation control management of a plurality of video streams associated with a plurality of user terminals in a communication network based at least in part on an overall video quality metric, the method comprising: determining a video quality metric for each of the plurality of video streams based on at least a set of video quality metric input parameters, and calculating an overall video quality metric based on the determined video quality metrics for the plurality of video streams; determining, with an objective function, at least one objective parameter based on at least the overall video quality metric, wherein the objective function determines the at least one objective parameter in a manner that maximizes a sum of the determined video quality metrics for all of the plurality of video streams; calculating a scheduling parameter for each of the plurality of video streams using a degradation control algorithm that is based on at least the determined video quality metric for the respective video stream and on the at least one objective parameter; and scheduling network resources for each of the plurality of video streams based on at least the scheduling parameter for the respective video stream.