WiMAX architecture priority scheduling for multimedia applications

Author

Wong, Rita ; Jean-Pierre, Emmanuel ; Almuhtadi, Wahab ; Srinivasan, A.

Author_Institution

Fac. of Technol. & Trades, Algonquin Coll., Ottawa, ON, Canada

fYear

2014

fDate

4-7 May 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) is an architecture that provides the ability to assign priority for Quality of Service (QoS) allowing network operators to configure a network to provide maximum performance compared to conventional non-priority systems. In this paper, we address the demand for bandwidth by data-hungry multimedia devices by utilizing WiMAX´s ability to schedule priority for network traffic. We present the results of application testing and implementation using WiMAX protocol where the main focus is to carry out and demonstrate how utilizing a priority scheduling system can benefit streaming real time multimedia. The results also validate how WiMAX technology is valuable to multimedia applications.

Keywords

WiMax; media streaming; protocols; quality of service; telecommunication traffic; QoS; WiMAX architecture priority scheduling; application testing; multimedia devices; network operators; network traffic; nonpriority systems; protocol; quality of service; real time multimedia streaming; worldwide interoperability for microwave access; Multimedia communication; Quality of service; Real-time systems; Streaming media; Telecommunication traffic; Throughput; WiMAX; 802.16d; Base station; Best Effort; Multimedia; QoS; Subscriber; UGS; WiMAX; nrtPS; priority scheduling; rtPS;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), 2014 IEEE 27th Canadian Conference on

Conference_Location

Toronto, ON

ISSN

0840-7789

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3099-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCECE.2014.6901028

Filename

6901028