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Medium access control for integrated multimedia wireless access with the use of a video packet discard scheme
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Medium access control for integrated multimedia wireless access with the use of a video packet discard scheme

P. Koutsakis and M. Vafiadis
Wireless Personal Communications, Vol.39(3), pp.343-359
2006
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Abstract

A well designed Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol for wireless networks should provide an efficient mechanism to share the limited bandwidth resources, and satisfy the diverse and usually contradictory Quality of Service (QoS) requirements of each traffic class. In this paper a new MAC protocol for next generation wireless communications is presented and investigated. The protocol uses a combined Packet Discard/Forward Error Correction scheme in order to efficiently integrate MPEG-4 videoconference packet traffic with voice, SMS data and web packet traffic over a noisy wireless channel of high capacity. Our scheme achieves high aggregate channel throughput in all cases of traffic load, while preserving the Quality of Service (QoS) requirements of each traffic type, and is shown to clearly outperform DPRMA, another efficient MAC protocol proposed in the literature for multimedia traffic integration over wireless networks.

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4 Electrical Engineering, Electronics & Computer Science
4.13 Telecommunications
4.13.725 Wireless MAC Protocols
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Telecommunications
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