Video Transmission Quality Improvement Under Multi-Hop Wireless Network Architecture

As wireless local area networks have been widely deployed and smart devices are becoming common in human everyday life, the demanding for video applications, such as video conference, video on demand, and video games is still increasing. However, the bandwidth in wireless networks is limited and channel quality is varying. As a result, how to provide a better delivered video quality over wireless networks is challenging. Also, the current solutions to better video transmission are almost only considering single hop transmission. When those solutions are applied in multi-hop wireless networks, such as wireless mesh network or VANET, the delivered video quality may not be good as one hop transmission. Therefore, we propose a new mechanism to improve video transmission in multi-hop wireless networks. The new mechanism contains two methods. One is to privilege the packets that have already traversed more hops. The other is control the number of retransmission for video packets with different importance. Through NS2 simulations, the results show the effectiveness of proposed mechanism.

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