Energy Aware Video Streaming from Drones with End-to-End Delivery using Packet Trimming

The end-to-end delivery of video from drones at one edge, to clients at another edge raises a number of architectural and implementation issues. A specific use-case of collecting video from a football field is presented, with a particular focus on the energy used by the drones, when doing positioning and video collection. It is impossible to send continuous video from all of the drones without having an energy management and a recharging process. Therefore an analysis and formulation of the consumed energy for a flight strategy for successful video collection is developed. Results of doing edge processing of the video streaming application, using a packet trimming process and using the Big Packet Protocol (BPP) protocol, demonstrate that the techniques presented provide a low latency, high QoE stream at the client.