Satellite Bandwidth Allocation Based on MPEG-4 Videoconference Traffic Prediction

Author

Koutsakis, Polychronis

Author_Institution

McMaster Univ., Hamilton

fYear

2007

fDate

19-25 June 2007

Firstpage

44

Lastpage

44

Abstract

The provision of acceptable Quality-of-Service (QoS) for multimedia traffic over a geosynchronous earth orbit (GEO) satellite network demands the existence of a well-designed Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol. This paper proposes a new dynamic satellite bandwidth allocation technique which is based on accurate MPEG-4 videoconference traffic prediction. The use of the prediction in our protocol is shown via a simulation study to provide very good throughput and delay results.

Keywords

access protocols; bandwidth allocation; multimedia communication; quality of service; satellite communication; telecommunication traffic; teleconferencing; video coding; MPEG-4 videoconference traffic prediction; dynamic satellite bandwidth allocation; geosynchronous earth orbit satellite network; medium access control protocol; multimedia traffic; quality-of-service; Access protocols; Channel allocation; Communication system traffic control; Earth; MPEG 4 Standard; Media Access Protocol; Quality of service; Satellites; Traffic control; Videoconference;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Networking and Services, 2007. ICNS. Third International Conference on

Conference_Location

Athens

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-2858-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICNS.2007.104

Filename

4438293