Bandwidth reservation for the provision of VoD services over wireless access networks using hybrid ARQ schemes

Author

Ma, Hairuo ; El Zarki, Magda

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Pennsylvania Univ., Philadelphia, PA, USA

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

114

Abstract

In this paper, we address the bandwidth reservation issue when MPEG-2 encoded VBR video streams are transmitted over wireless access networks using hybrid ARQ schemes to combat channel errors in VoD services. In addition to the original bandwidth which is necessary for the VBR traffic, a certain amount of excess bandwidth has to be reserved for retransmissions required by hybrid ARQ schemes. Different excess bandwidth reservation algorithms are proposed and investigated via simulations. The performance results are then presented and compared

Keywords

automatic repeat request; radio access networks; telecommunication traffic; video on demand; MPEG-2 encoded VBR video streams; VoD services; bandwidth reservation; channel errors; hybrid ARQ schemes; retransmissions; wireless access networks; Asynchronous transfer mode; Automatic repeat request; Bandwidth; Bit error rate; Broadband communication; Communication system traffic control; Costs; Streaming media; Telecommunication traffic; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 1999. WCNC. 1999 IEEE

Conference_Location

New Orleans, LA

ISSN

1525-3511

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5668-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCNC.1999.797797

Filename

797797