Application-level and user-level QoS assessment of audio-video ip transmission over cross-layer designed wireless ad hoc networks

IEICE Transactions on Communications

Volumn E91-B, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3205-3215

  Nunome, Toshiro ^a   Tasaka, Shuji ^a   Nakaoka, Ken ^b  

^a NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b SANYO ELECTRIC CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Audio video streaming; Crosslayer design; Link quality based routing; Media synchronization control; QoS; Wireless ad hoc network

Indexed keywords

AD HOC NETWORKS; AUDIO STREAMING; MEDIA STREAMING; NETWORK LAYERS; NETWORK ROUTING; QUALITY CONTROL; QUALITY OF SERVICE; ROUTING PROTOCOLS; SYNCHRONIZATION; TOPOLOGY; VIDEO STREAMING;

APPLICATION LAYERS; AUDIO-VIDEO STREAMING; CROSS-LAYER DESIGN; LINK QUALITY; MEDIA SYNCHRONIZATION; PRO-ACTIVE ROUTING PROTOCOLS; REACTIVE ROUTING PROTOCOL; SUBJECTIVE EXPERIMENTS;

WIRELESS AD HOC NETWORKS;

EID: 67651062166     PISSN: 09168516     EISSN: 17451345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietcom/e91-b.10.3205     Document Type: Article

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