In-home online entertainment: analyzing the impact of the wireless MAC-transport protocols interference

Author

Palazzi, Claudio E. ; Pau, Giovanni ; Roccetti, Marco ; Gerla, Mario

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., California Univ., Los Angeles, CA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2005

fDate

13-16 June 2005

Firstpage

516

Abstract

Online entertainment is now possible at home by means of a plethora of ubiquitous services that can be provided based on wireless technologies such as, for instance, the common Wi-Fi IEEE802.11g network technology. Yet a scarce attention has been devoted to study the impact of wireless MAC layer design choices on the native Internet transport protocols (e.g., TCP, UDP) during the distribution of in-house entertainment contents. We show that the current setting of the maximum number of retransmissions and the queue size in the IEEE802.11 protocol not necessarily corresponds to the optimal choice in this context. Based on the obtained results, we also provide directions in order to find the most efficient MAC layer setting.

Keywords

Internet; access protocols; entertainment; home computing; telecommunication services; transport protocols; ubiquitous computing; wireless LAN; Internet transport protocols; MAC; Wi-Fi IEEE802.11g network technology; in-home online entertainment; transport protocols interference; ubiquitous services; wireless MAC; wireless MAC layer; Communication system security; Computer science; Home automation; Interference; Internet; Media Access Protocol; TCPIP; Transport protocols; Wireless LAN; Wireless application protocol;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Networks, Communications and Mobile Computing, 2005 International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9305-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WIRLES.2005.1549462

Filename

1549462