TY - GEN
T1 - On the utility of rate adaptation for broadcast/multicast media traffic in 802.11 networks
AU - Lee, Kyungsoo
AU - Yun, Sangki
AU - Park, Yongtae
AU - Kim, Hyogon
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2010 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - As there is no MAC layer acknowledgment from the receiver for broadcast/multicast transmission in the 802.11 network, using the lowest transmission rate is understandably the safest approach because it minimizes reception error for clients with the worst channel condition. On the contrary, the transmission rate for receivers with good channel conditions is unnecessarily limited. In the case of video streams being broadcast/multicast via 802.11, this approach will lead to poor received video at all clients. In this paper, we demonstrate that there isutility in activating rate adaptation for broadcast/multicast traffic. In particular, we implement a system that significantly improves the broadcast video quality in 802.11 network. This is achieved through an approach of joined broadcast/multicast rate adaptation and network-coded retransmission.
AB - As there is no MAC layer acknowledgment from the receiver for broadcast/multicast transmission in the 802.11 network, using the lowest transmission rate is understandably the safest approach because it minimizes reception error for clients with the worst channel condition. On the contrary, the transmission rate for receivers with good channel conditions is unnecessarily limited. In the case of video streams being broadcast/multicast via 802.11, this approach will lead to poor received video at all clients. In this paper, we demonstrate that there isutility in activating rate adaptation for broadcast/multicast traffic. In particular, we implement a system that significantly improves the broadcast video quality in 802.11 network. This is achieved through an approach of joined broadcast/multicast rate adaptation and network-coded retransmission.
KW - Broadcast
KW - IEEE 802.11
KW - Multicast
KW - Network coding
KW - Rate adaptation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=76749130736&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/1658997.1659026
DO - 10.1145/1658997.1659026
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:76749130736
SN - 9781605587516
T3 - Proceedings of the 2009 ACM Conference on Emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies, CoNEXT'09 - Co-located Student Workshop, CoNext Student Workshop '09
SP - 53
EP - 54
BT - Proceedings of the 2009 ACM Conference on Emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies, CoNEXT'09 - Co-located Student Workshop, CoNext Student Workshop '09
T2 - CoNext Student Workshop '09
Y2 - 1 December 2009 through 4 December 2009
ER -