ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the problem of multicasting multiple video streams from a wireless base station to many mobile receivers over a common wireless channel. It also considers the burst scheduling problem that determines the optimal start times and durations of individual bursts for all video streams to minimize the energy consumption of mobile devices and maximize the bandwidth utilization of the wireless network. In practice, the aggregate bit rate of the video streams can be greater than the available bandwidth. A network operator multiplexes several videos into an aggregated stream and transmits it over a wireless network with a fixed bandwidth. If all video streams are encoded at the same high bit rate, some video streams may unnecessarily be allocated more bandwidth than they require and this extra bandwidth yields marginal or no visual quality improvement. Thus, the expensive wireless bandwidth of the wireless network could be wasted.
