Title
Robust Real-Time Multimedia Transmissions in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Abstract
To support the quality of service in wireless multimedia communications, wireless systems should work well in typical wireless environments characterized by the path loss of the signals, multipath fading, interference to adjacent channels, and random errors. A variety of researches in the application-layer have been proposed to adapt the video encoder to the link quality by compressing the data with different rates. However, these approaches introduce additional overhead and are inefficient when the round-trip delays are long. This paper proposes an algorithm to prevent packet losses and skipped frames by using optimal fragmentation technique with rate adaptation. Using an adaptive SNR estimator, the sender estimates the SNR of the receiver, and shapes arbitrary sized packets into optimal length packets with rate adaptation. Through rigorous analysis and extensive experiments with an implemented test-bed, we show that the algorithm significantly enhances the visual quality of real-time multimedia streaming in noisy ad hoc networks. The experimental results reinforce the fact that the algorithm is a realistic approach that can be deployed without modifying existing standards.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/ISM.2009.29
ISM
Keywords
Field
DocType
rate adaptation,adaptive snr estimator,wireless multimedia transmission,wireless multimedia communications,link quality,quality of service,optimal length packet,wireless systems,data compression,multipath fading,multimedia transmissions,wireless multimedia communication,different rate,wireless ad hoc networks,robust real-time multimedia transmissions,typical wireless environment,video encoder,fragmentation,optimal fragmentation technique,ad hoc networks,wireless system,multimedia communication,radiocommunication,real-time video streaming,visual quality,test bed,wireless ad hoc network,packet loss,path loss,throughput,ad hoc network,real time,wireless communication,signal to noise ratio,bit error rate
Multipath propagation,Wireless,Computer science,Network packet,Quality of service,Computer network,Real-time computing,Path loss,Encoder,Throughput,Wireless ad hoc network
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-0-7695-3890-7
0
0.34
References 
Authors
13
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yusun Chang1739.02
Myounghwan Lee283.37
John A. Copeland345660.84