A link adaptation scheme for efficient transmission of H.264 scalable video over multirate WLANs

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 875-887

  Pourmohammadi Fallah, Yaser ^a,b   Mansour, Hassan ^a,b   Khan, Salman ^b   Nasiopoulos, Panos ^a,b   Alnuweiri, Hussein M ^a,b,c  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY AT QATAR   (Qatar)

Author keywords

802.11n; Cross layer design; H.264; Multiple input multiple output (MIMO); Scalable video coding (SVC); Video over wireless; WLAN

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC STREAMING; CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS; FISH; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MECHANISMS; MODULATION; OPTIMIZATION; PROGRAMMING THEORY; QUALITY CONTROL; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; THEOREM PROVING; VIDEO STREAMING; VIDEOTEX; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

ADMISSION CONTROL (AC); BIT RATE (BPP); CHANNEL CONDITIONS; CODING SCHEMES; CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS; CROSS LAYER OPTIMIZATIONS; ENHANCEMENT LAYERS (EL); LINK ADAPTATION (LA); LINK ADAPTATION MECHANISMS; MULTI RATE; OPTIMIZ ATION PROBLEMS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION (PE); PHYSICAL (PHY) LAYERS; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; RELIABILITY CRITERION; SCALABLE VIDEO; SCALABLE VIDEO STREAMING; TEMPORAL FAIRNESS; TRAFFIC LOADS; VIDEO BIT RATE; VIDEO QUALITY; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK (WIRELESS LAN);

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

EID: 46349094259     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2008.920745     Document Type: Article

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