Integrating latest technology multimedia traffic over high-speed cellular networks

In this paper we explore, via an extensive simulation study, the performance of a Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol when integrating high-quality video, web and MP3 data packet traffic over a wireless picocellular system of very high capacity, with errors. Mobile terminals are considered to be high performance devices with extended storage capabilities which can act like cache memories streaming multimedia material. To the best of our knowledge, this is one of the first papers in the literature investigating the integration of H.264 video traffic with other types of traffic over wireless networks. Our results show that, despite the very bursty nature of the examined traffic and the burstiness of channel errors, the proposed scheme achieves very high throughput results while preserving the strict Quality of Service (QoS) requirements of each traffic type.

[1]  Nikos Passas,et al.  Traffic scheduling in wireless ATM networks , 1997, IEEE ATM '97 Workshop Proceedings (Cat. No.97TH8316).

[2]  Panayota Papantoni-Kazakos,et al.  A simple window random access algorithm with advantageous properties , 1989, IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory.

[3]  Dario Rossi,et al.  User patience and the Web: a hands-on investigation , 2003, GLOBECOM '03. IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (IEEE Cat. No.03CH37489).

[4]  Dongman Lee,et al.  A Measurement Study of Storage Resource and Multimedia Contents on a High-Performance Research and Education Network , 2003, HSNMC.

[5]  Polychronis Koutsakis,et al.  Integrated wireless access for videoconference from MPEG-4 and H.263 video coders with voice, E-mail, and web traffic , 2005, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

[6]  Ajay Luthra,et al.  The H.264/AVC Advanced Video Coding standard: overview and introduction to the fidelity range extensions , 2004, SPIE Optics + Photonics.

[7]  Marco Bottigliengo,et al.  Short-term fairness for TCP flows in 802.11b WLANs , 2004, IEEE INFOCOM 2004.

[8]  Marco Conti,et al.  Design and performance evaluation of a MAC protocol for wireless local area networks , 1997, Mob. Networks Appl..

[9]  Christoph Lindemann,et al.  Traffic modeling and characterization for UMTS networks , 2001, GLOBECOM'01. IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Cat. No.01CH37270).

[10]  Zygmunt J. Haas,et al.  A dynamic packet reservation multiple access scheme for wireless ATM , 1999, Mob. Networks Appl..

[11]  Phuoc Tran-Gia,et al.  Source Traffic Modeling of Wireless Applications , 2001 .