An Evaluation of Screen Content Casting over Mobile and Wireless Networks

Thanks to the availability of many smart devices, displays, and broadband connections, screen casting/sharing has become an important functionality for user devices. Meanwhile, a new video standard called screen content coding (SCC) is going to be issued to support this trend. This paper presents a standard-compliant implementation and evaluation of SCC streaming to mobile devices. The study is targeted at a feasible design and settings for customer devices, supporting both content-generating side and content-consuming side. The evaluation results help to answer how a sending device should generate screen content videos, and how a receiving device could be implemented and adjusted in time-varying environments of mobile networks and wireless home networks. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first evaluation study for SCC casting.

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