Energy Efficient Adaptive Video Streaming With Rotary-Wing UAV

In this paper, we study an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) enabled video streaming system, where a rotary-wing UAV is dispatched as a mobile base station to serve multiple ground users (GUs) with dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP (DASH). By introducing the Quality of Experience (QoE) utility model, we investigate the joint design of transmit power and bandwidth allocation as well as UAV trajectory for maximization of minimum utility among all GUs, subject to information-causality constraints for video playing and UAV total energy budget, which consists of both communication related energy and UAV propulsion energy. The formulated problem is non-convex and difficult to be solved directly. An efficient algorithm is proposed to obtain the suboptimal solution by applying the successive convex approximation and alternating optimization techniques. Simulation results show that the proposed solution can achieve significant gains in terms of QoE utility over benchmark schemes for energy-efficient video streaming.