Performance analysis of WebRTC-based video streaming over power constrained platforms

This work analyses the use of the Web Real-Time Communications (WebRTC) framework on resource-constrained platforms. WebRTC is a consolidated solution for real-time video streaming, and it is an appealing solution in a wide range of application scenarios. We focus our attention on those in which power consumption, size and weight are of paramount importance because of the so-called Size, Weight and Power (SWaP) requirements, such as the use case of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) delivering real-time video streams over WebRTC to peers on the ground. The testbed described in this work shows that the power consumption can be reduced by changing WebRTC default settings while maintaining comparable video quality.