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Title:      TUNING WIMAX FOR MULTI-CONNECTION VIDEO STREAMING
Author(s):      Salah Saleh Al-Majeed, Martin Fleury, Uma Mohan
ISBN:      978-972-8939-19-9
Editors:      Hans Weghorn, Jörg Roth and Pedro Isaías
Year:      2010
Edition:      Single
Keywords:      Multi-connections, TFRC, video streaming; WiMAX
Type:      Full Paper
First Page:      51
Last Page:      58
Language:      English
Cover:      cover          
Full Contents:      click to dowload Download
Paper Abstract:      Streaming a single video over multiple TCP-Friendly Rate Control (TFRC) connections is a promising way of separately coping with both wireless channel losses and traffic congestion, without the need for cross-layer intervention or retransmission delay at the data-link layer. At the same time, the wireless channel is properly utilized, as throughput improves with an increasing number of connections. Nevertheless over IEEE 802.16e (mobile WiMAX), tuning is needed to select the number of connections and the Time Division Duplex (TDD) frame size. The paper assesses the impact on video quality of packet drops due both to channel loss over a WiMAX access link and router buffer overflow across an all-IP network, consisting of broadband wireless access and core network. The paper also considers end-to-end delay and start-up delay when employing several connections. Results show that provided the TDD frame size is selected appropriately then using multiple connections preserves video quality and improves wireless channel utilization, with a minimal impact on end-to-end delay. As a trade-off, there is an increase in start-up delay arising from the need to avoid possible buffer underflow.
   

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