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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 11, 2014
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Miao Zhao, Cupertino, CA (US);
Bin Jia, Piscataway, NJ (US);
Mingquan Wu, Princeton Junction, NJ (US);
Hong Heather Yu, West Windsor, NJ (US);
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
A method for scheduling user equipment (UE) devices comprising sorting the plurality of UE devices based on a weight of priority associated with each of the UE devices with respect to a plurality of subbands, and assigning one or more of the UE devices to each of the subbands using the weight of priority associated with the UE devices, wherein the weight of priority is based on one or more network utility functions associated with the UE devices. A computer program product comprising computer executable instructions to receive a media content segment using a dynamic adaptive video streaming over hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) (DASH) protocol, monitor a playback buffer size of a UE device, monitor a battery energy level of the UE device, and adjust a representation quality level in a segment request based on the target requested video rate, the playback buffer size and the battery energy level.