Title: Wireless video streaming over integrated 3G and WLAN networks

Authors: Ivan Lee, Ling Guan

Addresses: School of Computer and Information Science, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, SA 5095, Australia. ' Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario M5B 2K3, Canada

Abstract: Media streaming is a popular application demanding high data rates and hard delay constraints. These requirements raise great challenges in the wireless environment, where signal fading, noise interference and network congestion introduce data losses or corruptions. Today, the availability of the Third Generation (3G) wireless system and the Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) provides a broader bandwidth to cater for multimedia application. Different characteristics of 3G and WLAN networks result in different attributes in video streaming applications. In this paper, we propose a collaborative scheme across 3G and WLAN networks for video streaming, using layered video coding and Unequal Error Protection (UEP) to improve the perceived video quality.

Keywords: wireless networks; video streaming; layered video coding; 3G cellular networks; WLANs; wireless LANs; wireless networks; local area networks; integration; unequal error protection; UEP; video quality.

DOI: 10.1504/IJWMC.2007.016724

International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing, 2007 Vol.2 No.4, pp.314 - 323

Published online: 18 Jan 2008 *

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