A binomial rate control for a media aware Access Point

Author

González, Rubén ; Otero, Alma ; Cerdà, Llorenç

Author_Institution

Comput. Syst. Dept., Univ. of Veracruz, Veracruz, Mexico

fYear

2012

fDate

2-4 May 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Multimedia communications over Wireless Local Area Networks like hotspots, are a challenging issue due to the best-effort nature of Internet communications. In a previous work we introduced a Dual-Queue Rate-Controlled mechanism for Access Points (DRAP) in a Hotspot scenario. DRAP has shown to provide some Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees to audio and video traffic flows in the presence of TCP background traffic. In this paper we present an enhancement for DRAP based on a binomial rate control algorithm. We call this enhancement a Binomial DRAP (B-DRAP). Our simulation results show that B-DRAP could be an alternative to provide soft QoS guarantees for multimedia communications.

Keywords

Internet; access control; multimedia communication; quality of service; telecommunication traffic; transport protocols; wireless LAN; Internet communications; QoS; TCP background traffic; audio traffic flow; binomial rate control; dual-queue rate-controlled mechanism; hotspot scenario; media aware access point; multimedia communications; quality of service; video traffic flow; wireless local area networks; Delay; IEEE 802.11 Standards; Quality of service; Resource management; Streaming media; Teleconferencing; Wireless LAN; Desktop Videoconferencing; Hotspot; IEEE 802.11; WLAN QoS;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering Applications (WEA), 2012 Workshop on

Conference_Location

Bogota

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0871-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WEA.2012.6220068

Filename

6220068