Airtime fair distributed cross-layer congestion control for real-time video over WLAN

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1158-1168

  Huang, Chih Wei ^a   Loiacono, Michael ^b   Rosca, Justinian ^b,c   Hwang, Jenq Neng ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Congestion control; Rate adaptation; Video over wireless; WLAN 802.11

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION LAYERS; CARRIER SENSE MULTIPLE ACCESS/COLLISION AVOIDANCES; CATASTROPHIC FAILURES; CONGESTION CONTROL; CONGESTION CONTROL ALGORITHM; CONTROL LOOP; CROSS-LAYER; CROSS-LAYER APPROACH; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL LAYER; PERCEPTUAL QUALITY; RATE ADAPTATION; REAL TIME VIDEOS; RELIABLE OPERATION; VIDEO OVER WIRELESS; WIRELESS DEVICES; WLAN 802.11;

ALGORITHMS; CARRIER SENSE MULTIPLE ACCESS; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; QUALITY OF SERVICE; REMOTE CONTROL; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 69449096729     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2009.2022776     Document Type: Article

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