Bandwidth Estimation in Wireless Lans for Multimedia Streaming Services

The popularity of multimedia streaming services via wireless networks presents major challenges in the management of network bandwidth. One challenge is to quickly and precisely estimate the available bandwidth for the decision of streaming rates of layered and scalable multimedia services. Previous...

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Main Authors: Heung Ki Lee, Varrian Hall, Ki Hwan Yum, Kyoung Ill Kim, Eun Jung Kim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2007-01-01
Series:Advances in Multimedia
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2007/70429
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description The popularity of multimedia streaming services via wireless networks presents major challenges in the management of network bandwidth. One challenge is to quickly and precisely estimate the available bandwidth for the decision of streaming rates of layered and scalable multimedia services. Previous studies based on wired networks are too burdensome to be applied to multimedia applications in wireless networks. In this paper, a new method, IdleGap, is suggested to estimate the available bandwidth of a wireless LAN based on the information from a low layer in the protocol stack. We use a network simulation tool, NS-2, to evaluate our new method with various ranges of cross-traffic and observation times. Our simulation results show that IdleGap accurately estimates the available bandwidth for all ranges of cross-traffic (100 Kbps ∼ 1 Mbps) with a very short observation time of 10 seconds.
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spelling doaj-art-1b13dfefc4b948a5a90745b949dba7a72025-08-20T02:02:20ZengWileyAdvances in Multimedia1687-56801687-56992007-01-01200710.1155/2007/7042970429Bandwidth Estimation in Wireless Lans for Multimedia Streaming ServicesHeung Ki Lee0Varrian Hall1Ki Hwan Yum2Kyoung Ill Kim3Eun Jung Kim4Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, College Station 77843-3112, TX, USADepartment of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, College Station 77843-3112, TX, USADepartment of Computer Science, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio 78249-1644, TX, USAElectronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), 161 Gajeong-Dong, Yusung-gu, Daejeon 305-700, South KoreaDepartment of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, College Station 77843-3112, TX, USAThe popularity of multimedia streaming services via wireless networks presents major challenges in the management of network bandwidth. One challenge is to quickly and precisely estimate the available bandwidth for the decision of streaming rates of layered and scalable multimedia services. Previous studies based on wired networks are too burdensome to be applied to multimedia applications in wireless networks. In this paper, a new method, IdleGap, is suggested to estimate the available bandwidth of a wireless LAN based on the information from a low layer in the protocol stack. We use a network simulation tool, NS-2, to evaluate our new method with various ranges of cross-traffic and observation times. Our simulation results show that IdleGap accurately estimates the available bandwidth for all ranges of cross-traffic (100 Kbps ∼ 1 Mbps) with a very short observation time of 10 seconds.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2007/70429
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