Implementing a cooperative MAC protocol for wireless video multicast

Özgü Alay, Zhe Xu, Thanasis Korakis, Yao Wang, Shivendra Panwar

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Abstract

Wireless video multicast enables delivery of popular events to many wireless users in a bandwidth efficient manner. However, providing good and stable video quality to a large number of users with varying channel conditions remains elusive. In our previous work, we integrated layered video coding with cooperative communication to enable efficient and robust video multicast in infrastructure-based wireless networks [1]. Through simulation and analysis, we showed that cooperative multicast improves the multicast system performance and the coverage area. In this work, we integrate the proposed system with packet level Forward Error Correction (FEC) and evaluate the viability of the system in a realistic environment. We implement the system at the MAC layer and report the experimental results in a medium size (i.e., 8 stations) testbed. The experimental results confirm that the new cooperative MAC protocol for multicast, delivers superior performance.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2009 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2009 - Proceedings
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009
Event2009 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2009 - Budapest, Hungary
Duration: Apr 5 2009Apr 8 2009

Publication series

NameIEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC
ISSN (Print)1525-3511

Other

Other2009 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2009
Country/TerritoryHungary
CityBudapest
Period4/5/094/8/09

Keywords

  • FEC
  • Layered video coding
  • MAC
  • User cooperation
  • Wireless video multicast

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Engineering

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