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With increasing use of smart phones and mobile broadband, efficient differentiation of traffic is essential for system stability and user satisfaction. In this paper we propose a scheduler centric approach to traffic differentiation (called QoS in this paper) over LTE, in which the scheduler acts as a core entity assisted with congestion control and admission control. The scheduler is responsible...
With the growth of data-capable, multi-interface wireless and mobile devices, a lot of research work is being done on handover management and network selection in heterogeneous environment. The goal is that a user should be able to select an appropriate wireless network according to its service requirements and seamlessly handover to that network regardless of the underlying wireless technology being...
Quality of Service (QoS) provided by the IEEE 802.11e amendment and by the proposed HCF Controlled Channel Access (HCCA) reference scheduler is tailored for Constant Bit Rate traffic streams. Moreover the numerous alternative scheduling algorithms are not suitable to serve Variable Bit Rate (VBR) traffic streams with the required QoS and real-time guarantees. This paper presents Immediate Dynamic...
The Internet is rapidly evolving towards a multimedia service delivery platform. However, existing Internet-based content delivery approaches have several disadvantages, such as the lack of Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees. Future Internet research has presented several promising ideas to solve the issues related to the current Internet, such as federations across network domains and end-to-end...
The next generation technology of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) allows voice to be delivered over the Internet Protocol based networks. The integration of VoIP and Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) has become popular. However, WLAN architecture was primarily designed to carry data and not for real-time applications, such as VoIP. Hence, there is a need to enhance the quality of VoIP transmission...
There are two main scalable methods for streaming live video over the Internet: Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks. Though both have their own problems, P2P streaming systems challenge delivering video with constant quality and CDNs approaches require deployment of large number of servers throughout the Internet that is costly. Recently, using hybrid architectures based...
Stringent QoS maintenance in a wireless environment for VoIP communication is a major challenge. VoIP inherently generates constant bit rate traffic and is highly sensitive to network delay. However, unpredictable network congestion makes a VoIP session so degraded that its QoS goes below a tolerable limit. Accordingly, a suitable solution is needed to adapt varying network conditions satisfying minimum...
The development of mobile phone technology, facilities and its features are currently growing rapidly. Bluetooth is one of mobile phone feature that implement wireless technology which can connect different devices through the ISM band. Bluetooth can be used as a media network for streaming video from computers to mobile phones. The research aims to analyze the influence of video bit rate in video...
This paper assesses QoE and application-level QoS of Multi-View Video and Audio (MVV-A) transmission over IP networks. We focus on the effects of camera arrangements and contents on QoE/QoS. We employ two types of application-level QoS parameter: user's behavior and output quality. For QoE assessment, we apply the Semantic Differential (SD) method and perform subjective experiment with two camera...
Video-on-Demand (VoD) services are attractive but also expensive even after the participation of P2P networks. To achieve cost reduction, this paper proposes two mechanisms to enhance the contribution of P2P networks, i.e., storage compression and micropayment. The former greatly magnifies the storage capacity of peer nodes, while the latter establishes an effective user incentive for VoD services...
Video smoothing techniques can be used to facilitate more effective transmission and to preserve better video quality. In this paper we develop a semi-optimal video smoothing approach to manage the transmission rates of MPEG-4 and H.264 video over a QoS-based wireless LTE network. The proposed technique utilizes a smoothing buffer with pre-defined thresholds to smooth the transmission rates while...
Concerning video transmission on the Internet, we present a model for estimating the subjective quality from objective measurements at the transmission receivers and on the network. The model reflects the quality degradation subject to parameters like packet loss ratio and bit rate and is calibrated using the results from subjective quality assessments. Besides the model and the calibration, the main...
Heterogeneous wireless access networks (HWAN) will create a market for the delivery of an extensive collection of novel and attractive services and contents. Accounting and pricing the ubiquitous services will play a key role from both service providers and users point of view. By one hand, wireless service providers (WSP) look for the maximum revenue and utilization rate and by other hand users will...
Utility functions, describing the value of a good or a resource from an end user's point of view, are widely used as an important ingredient for all sorts of microeconomic models. In the context of resource allocation in communication networks, a logarithmic form of utility usually serves as the standard example due to its simplicity and mathematical tractability, with the additional nice property...
The ongoing convergence of QoE (Quality of Experience) and QoS (Quality of Service) studies to give a thorough understanding of the end-user has posed numerous exciting possibilities for network and multimedia researchers. However, there is not yet a proper visualization tool that is able to map the many-to-one relationship between QoS metrics and QoE, leaving researchers speechless in the cacophony...
Quality of Service (QoS) provisioning is one of the main requirements in the 3GPP IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and it has been addressed in different works since the beginning of the IMS standardization process. As a result of the fixed and mobile networks evolution, parameters standardized in IMS have changed constantly until the specification of the Policy and Charging Control (PCC) architecture...
Utility function recently has been adopted in network studies to describe quality of service. However, the existing utility functions focus only on the effect of power or throughput, so are not suitable to delay and disruption tolerant networking (DTN), where delay and disruption have major impacts on the utility and cannot be ignored. This paper proposes a corresponding sigmoid utility function,...
Quality of Experience (QoE) reflects the customer's perception of service, and is extremely important for operators. In VoIP service, variety of factors will affect customer's QoE, e.g. source data quality and the transmission channel condition. In cellular systems, although higher level of source coding will improve QoE, more radio resource will be consumed and thus degradation of system capacity...
This paper presents a formula for the throughput of a network considering the bursty nature and delay requirements of real sources by using the established results in the area of guaranteed rate scheduling. The network of which the throughput is derived, implements aggregate scheduling which has been tipped as the solution to address scalability issues in large scale networks. The formula is quite...
This paper presents a VoIP packet loss model applicable to wireless access transmission media and usable for determination of admissible call number threshold value. The main contribution is a more realistic approach for VoIP packet loss evaluation. The known bufferless fluid-flow method is applied but a new simple exact formula for ACT voice packets loss is developed. The suggested method is evaluated...
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