Efficient Wireless Bandwidth Allocation for MPEG-4 Videos Integrated with Web Traffic

A Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol is proposed and evaluated in this work, for the efficient integration of high quality video traffic with web data packet traffic over a burst-error wireless channel of very high capacity. We envision a system where the mobile terminals are considered to be high performance devices with extended storage capabilities which can act like cache memories streaming multimedia material. Via an extensive simulation study we evaluate the system’s performance under a variety of possible loads which consist of actual MPEG-4 streams and web sessions.