Delay constrained resource allocation for wireless home networks

State-of-the-art multimedia streaming services are scalable, hence leverage a quality choice to end users. Scalability presents multiple QoS requirements, to be met by the under-lying network technology. The wireless standard IEEE 802.11e, typically used for connecting CE devices in a home, supports a cooperative distributed MAC-level QoS control. While in most investigations the focus lies on channel shares as a function of MAC parameters, this paper considers channel shares together with delays. The results derived through simulations present the limitations on the MAC enforcement mechanisms, while the share/delay relationship can be used for adapting streaming services.