MMC05-2: Adaptive Video Streaming over Multi-channel Ad Hoc Networks

Author

Yang, Guang-Hua ; Shen, Dongxu ; Yang, Daiqin ; Li, Victor O K

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

fYear

2006

fDate

Nov. 27 2006-Dec. 1 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

In this paper, we propose an adaptive video transmission scheme to achieve unequal error protection in multichannel ad hoc networks. In our scheme, video data is divided into high priority (HP) and low priority (LP) portions, and mobile nodes have two channels for video transmission. A channel quality metric, busy time ratio (BTR), is employed to characterize the channel quality. The channel with better BTR metric is used for HP data, and the other for LP. Further, adaptive load control and delay-constrained queue management schemes are proposed to improve performance. Simulation results demonstrate the performance of video streaming is greatly enhanced in multichannel multi-hop ad hoc networks.

Keywords

ad hoc networks; queueing theory; telecommunication channels; telecommunication network management; video streaming; adaptive video streaming; busy time ratio; channel quality; error protection; mobile nodes; multichannel ad hoc networks; queue management; Ad hoc networks; Adaptive control; Delay; Error correction codes; Load flow control; Programmable control; Spread spectrum communication; Streaming media; Telecommunication traffic; Video compression;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 2006. GLOBECOM '06. IEEE

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

ISSN

1930-529X

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0356-1

Electronic_ISBN

1930-529X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.2006.222

Filename

4150852