Eavesdropping wireless video packets to improve standard multicast transmission in Wi-Fi networks

Author

Pace, Pasquale ; Iannitelli, Gianpietro ; Aloi, Gianluca

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron., Comput. & Syst. Sci. (DEIS), Univ. of Calabria, Rende, Italy

fYear

2010

fDate

5-7 May 2010

Firstpage

471

Lastpage

476

Abstract

This paper proposes WEVCast, (Wireless Eavesdropping Video Casting) a new mechanism to overcome the performance obtained by wireless multicast transmission of video contents over standard Wi-Fi networks. We described this new strategy pointing out few specific features of our proposal such as the simplicity, the robustness and the extreme compatibility with all off-the-shelf wireless devices; in addition, we validated our idea throughout a quite realistic simulation framework well designed for perceived video quality evaluation. The obtained results confirm the goodness of the proposed solution making it very attractive for the new multimedia video content delivery services.

Keywords

Broadcasting; Computer networks; High definition video; Multimedia communication; Personal digital assistants; Pervasive computing; Proposals; Streaming media; Unicast; Video sharing; EQoS; Multimedia content delivery; PQoS; wireless multicast;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Pervasive Computing (ISWPC), 2010 5th IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Modena, Italy

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6855-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-6857-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISWPC.2010.5483794

Filename

5483794