A lossless handover method for video transmission in mobile ATM networks and its subjective quality assessment

Author

Nishio, Masaya ; Shinagawa, Noriteru ; Kobayashi, Takehiko

Author_Institution

YRP Mobile Telecommun. Key Technol. Labs. Co. Ltd., Japan

Volume

37

Issue

11

fYear

1999

fDate

11/1/1999 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

38

Lastpage

44

Abstract

Cell loss is one of the major causes of degradation in quality of service in ATM mobile communication systems. It can be suppressed by employing buffer memories in the network; however, cell delay occurs as a consequence. This article proposes a lossless handover method for mobile ATM communication networks that both prevents cell loss and can suppress cell delay variation. The method was simulated on an experimental system to subjectively evaluate MPEG2 images relative to buffer memory size and the results obtained are presented

Keywords

asynchronous transfer mode; buffer storage; cellular radio; data compression; delays; packet radio networks; quality of service; video coding; ATM mobile communication systems; MPEG2 images; QoS degradation; buffer memory size; cell delay variation suppression; cell loss; experimental system; lossless handover method; mobile ATM networks; quality of service; simulation; subjective quality assessment; video transmission; Asynchronous transfer mode; Base stations; Buffer storage; Intelligent networks; Laboratories; Mobile communication; Propagation losses; Quality assessment; Radio control; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0163-6804

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/35.803648

Filename

803648