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This paper studies QoE (Quality of Experience) enhancement of audio-video IP transmission over the uplink channel, i.e., from subscriber stations (SSs) to the base station (BS), in the IEEE 802.16 BE service. We assume two types of capacity allocation schemes for uplink and downlink burst durations: static and adaptive. Furthermore, we introduce a piggyback request mechanism for uplink bandwidth requests...
LTE standard defines strict requirements for service classes in order to provide end users with exceptional QoS characteristics including fast connectivity and high data rates. However there is no standard scheduling algorithm defined for LTE and the task of protecting end user satisfaction while maintaining service class restrictions is left upon the service provider and currently is an open issue...
As the technology of multimedia applications in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is highly desired nowadays, how to guarantee real-time service becomes one of the biggest research challenges in this area. Even though lots of related works have been conducted to meet this requirement in several ways, the specific traffic model for multimedia applications has not been taken yet. It makes these new approaches...
In high criticality crisis scenarios, such as disaster management, ad hoc wireless networks are quickly assembled in the field to support decision makers through situational awareness using messaging-, voice-, and video-based applications. These applications cannot afford the luxury of stalling or failing due to overwhelming bandwidth demand on these networks as this could contribute to overall mission...
Wireless networks face the challenge of being able to provide high Quality of Service (QoS) to users running different multimedia applications. As the number of applications continuously grows and multimedia users have widely different and contradictory QoS requirements, the task of the network designer in next generation wireless networks is further aggravated. Efficient Call Admission Control (CAC)...
As mobile devices, such as smart phones and tablet PCs, become more and more ubiquitous, it is increasingly popular for users to watch online video streaming on their mobile devices. Because of the nature of wireless broadcast, a wireless router (e.g., an access point or cellular tower) can retrieve video streams from the video server and then efficiently multicast them via wireless medium to multiple...
In this paper, we address the problem of guaranteed transmission of video flows in the context of WiMAX mesh networks for video surveillance purposes. The main design issue in such networks is to maximize the number of flows that can be accommodated in critical situations. Guaranteeing a throughput for individual flows in a multi-hop WiMAX network is a challenging task. We consider a specific dedicated...
In this paper we design a robust opportunistic scheduler to be implemented at the base station in a cellular network for broadcast media streaming applications. The scheduling mechanism operates based on information on both the average and the instantaneous user distributions, and on radio link channel quality, obtained through the cellular uplink channel. Video streams are encoded into multiple scalable...
Video conferencing service requires a multicast tree to distribute its multimedia contents to all participants. Link cost is very important in building such media distribution trees. In this research work, a multi-variable cost function is proposed. This cost function can calculate links' costs based on both network resources and application's requirements. Since participants may join the conference...
In this paper, we introduce distributed caching of videos at the base-stations of the Radio Access Network (RAN) as a way to reduce the need to bring requested videos from Internet CDNs, thereby reducing backhaul transmission, improving video quality of experience — delay and video stalling — and increasing overall network capacity to support more number of simultaneous video requests. Unlike Internet...
In recent years, a number of rate-distortion (R-D) optimization schemes have been proposed. These works discussed the joint source-channel rate allocation problem for achieving best end-to-end video transmission quality under limited transmission bit rate. However, encoding complexity, a critical concern for video transmission from mobile devices, was hardly considered. Especially, the time-varying...
The core of the Next Generation Network (NGN) is a converging point of various classes of session flows. As a result, despite the presence of admission control techniques, a competition for resources becomes inevitable. In such an environment, certain flows may be disadvantaged due to others consuming or withholding access to a resource that is limited in availability. Therefore, it is extremely important...
The service continuity mechanism is to provide multimedia application with seamless multimedia experience over multiple networks (Wifi, 3G, Wimax, LTE) as well as multiple devices (mobile, PCs, PDA, Settop box) in ubiquitous network. However, most of the proposed approaches of service continuity are either not adaptive resources provisioning or based on a specific definition of context in ubiquitous...
To meet the special requirements of resource-limited video sensors in wireless video sensor network (WVSN), low-complexity video encoding technique is highly desired. In distributed multi-view video coding (DMVC) system, multi-view video sources are encoded separately and decoded dependently, so the burden of huge computation is shifted from the encoder side to the decoder side. The generation of...
Measurement studies of YouTube show that there are some distinctive properties regarding to video sharing service, e.g., small clip size, suggestion links between related clips. This observation motivates us to explore the possibility to use peerassisted approach to offload content providers. Specifically, we want to leverage the suggestion links between video clips to construct cooperative caching...
Real time multimedia content transmission on the Internet is essential for the most current applications such as voice over IP, video conference, games and web TV. The most popular Internet transport protocols — TCP and UDP — do not suffice when one needs to transmit data from these applications. As a consequence, IETF has been working in new transport protocols that enhance the quality of these multimedia...
In this paper we present the successful implementation of WEVCast (Wireless Eavesdropping Video Casting) [2] a new mechanism to improve the performance of multicast streaming video over wireless networks. It is well known that the standard IEEE 802.11 protocol has no specific mechanism for multicast transmission and it always uses the base transmission rate (i.e., 1/6 Mbps for 802.11 b/g) because...
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