Title
Optimal bandwidth adaptation for layered video multicasting in IEEE 802.11 WLANs
Abstract
With widespread adoption of wireless local area networks (WLANs), video dissemination over wireless links such as video telephony, video gaming, and mobile TV broadcasting have become fast growing applications. Since wireless channel is error-prone, the receiving data rate of mobile stations (MSs) needs to be selected properly to avoid high packet loss rate and serious service quality degradation. In addition, to enhance reliability of video multicasting, application-layer forward error correction (AL-FEC) is a promising approach against packet losses. However, at the WLAN access point (AP), how to adaptively select a proper combination of transmission rate and AL-FEC code rate to multicast layered videos in WLANs becomes an important issue. In this paper, we propose a reward-based bandwidth adaptation mechanism to dynamically determine the best combination of transmission rate and AL-FEC code rate to multicast layered video in IEEE 802.11 WLANs. Our goal is to maximize the system reward which represents the video quality experienced on all users, under a given resource budget. A reward-based policy iteration algorithm is proposed as a heuristic approach to solve the optimization problem and its performance is compared with that of two baseline algorithms: exhaustive search and genetic algorithm. We demonstrate the performance of our approach via simulations. The simulation results show our approach can provide better service quality even through system resource is sparse.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/ITST.2012.6425244
ITST
Keywords
Field
DocType
layered video multicasting reliability,optimal bandwidth adaptation,radio links,application-layer forward error correction,video dissemination,resource budget,ieee 802.11,quality of service,telecommunication network reliability,mobile tv broadcasting,heuristic approach,wireless local area networks,ieee 802.11 wlan,wireless channel,serious service quality degradation,reward-based bandwidth adaptation mechanism,video telephony,heuristic programming,optimization problem,wireless channels,genetic algorithm,video coding,genetic algorithms,forward error correction,high packet loss rate,al-fec code rate,exhaustive search algorithm,receiving data rate,wireless links,scalable video coding,reward-based policy iteration algorithm,transmission rate,video gaming,ap,wireless lan,wlan access point,iterative methods,mobile stations,video streaming,multicast communication,wireless multicast
Forward error correction,IEEE 802.11,Code rate,Computer science,Network packet,Computer network,Packet loss,Quality of service,Real-time computing,Multicast,Video quality
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4673-3069-5
0
0.34
References 
Authors
6
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yen-ting Chen116218.83
Hung-Yi Teng2254.32
Ren-hung Hwang364369.87
Jeng Farn Lee41089.15