New fairness paradigms for wireless multimedia communication

Wireless devices currently operate in a non-collaborative manner that limits their performance and the overall communication system performance, as the competing stations do not always effectively exploit the available resources. We propose to fundamentally change the non-collaborative way in which wireless stations currently interact, by allowing them to exchange information and resources to improve the performance of wireless multimedia applications. In this paper, we introduce several new fairness concepts for wireless multimedia systems that allow information and resource exchanges among stations, and show their advantages as compared to existing fairness mechanisms used in wireline communications.