Experimental assessment of media synchronization quality in IEEE 802.11 b under Bluetooth interference

Author

Kato, Masami ; Okura, Hirotsugu ; Ito, Kiyoshige ; Tasaka, Shuji

Author_Institution

Digital Syst. Dev. Center BU, Sanyo Electr. Co. Ltd., Gifu, Japan

Volume

3

fYear

2003

fDate

7-10 Sept. 2003

Firstpage

2683

Abstract

This paper assesses the media synchronization quality of audio-video transmission over the IEEE 802.11b wireless LAN under Bluetooth interference by experiment. In this situation, the temporal constraints of audio and video may be disturbed, since the Bluetooth interference cause delay jitter due to retransmission and carrier sensing in the MAC layer of IEEE 802.11b. In the experiment, a media server transfers stored video and audio streams to a mobile terminal over an IEEE 802.11b wireless LAN; as radio interference from Bluetooth, two other terminals transmit data over Bluetooth at the same time. We examine the influence of Bluetooth on the audio-video transmission over IEEE 802.11b in terms of the Bluetooth signal level and its data load. We also apply a media synchronization control scheme and confirm its effectiveness.

Keywords

Bluetooth; access protocols; mobile communication; wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11 b wireless LAN; MAC layer; audio-video transmission; bluetooth; media server; media synchronization control scheme; media synchronization quality; mobile terminal; radio interference; Bluetooth; Delay; Frequency synchronization; Interference; Jitter; Media Access Protocol; Spread spectrum communication; Streaming media; Wireless LAN; Wireless personal area networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 2003. PIMRC 2003. 14th IEEE Proceedings on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7822-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PIMRC.2003.1259223

Filename

1259223