Performance evaluation of video streaming over multi-hop wireless local area networks

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 338-347

  Li, Deer ^a   Pan, Jianping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

H.264; IEEE 802.11 WLAN; IPTV; MAC; Multi hop wireless networks; Video streaming

Indexed keywords

BACK-OFF; IEEE 802.11 MAC PROTOCOLS; IEEE 802.11 WLAN; IEEE 802.11S; MARKOV-CHAIN MODELS; MEASUREMENT STUDY; MULTIHOP; MULTIHOP WIRELESS NETWORK; NETWORK SIMULATION; OPTIMAL BALANCE; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PERFORMANCE METRICS; SIMULATION MODULES; THROUGHPUT ANALYSIS; UPPER BOUND; VIDEO STREAMING SERVICES; WIRELESS TESTBED;

ACOUSTIC STREAMING; AD HOC NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; STANDARDS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; TELEVISION BROADCASTING; TEST FACILITIES; TESTBEDS; THROUGHPUT; VIDEO STREAMING; VIDEOTEX; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

EID: 74549177531     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2010.01.090556     Document Type: Article

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