Cross-Layer Design of Source Rate Control and Congestion Control for Wireless Video Streaming

Zhu, Peng; Zeng, Wenjun; Li, Chunwen

doi:https://doi.org/10.1155/2007/68502

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Volume 2007 | Article ID 068502 | https://doi.org/10.1155/2007/68502

Cross-Layer Design of Source Rate Control and Congestion Control for Wireless Video Streaming

Peng Zhu,¹Wenjun Zeng,²and Chunwen Li³

Academic Editor: Zhu Han

Received30 Dec 2006

Revised22 May 2007

Accepted11 Jul 2007

Published30 Aug 2007

Abstract

Cross-layer design has been used in streaming video over the wireless channels to optimize the overall system performance. In this paper, we extend our previous work on joint design of source rate control and congestion control for video streaming over the wired channel, and propose a cross-layer design approach for wireless video streaming. First, we extend the QoS-aware congestion control mechanism (TFRCC) proposed in our previous work to the wireless scenario, and provide a detailed discussion about how to enhance the overall performance in terms of rate smoothness and responsiveness of the transport protocol. Then, we extend our previous joint design work to the wireless scenario, and a thorough performance evaluation is conducted to investigate its performance. Simulation results show that by cross-layer design of source rate control at application layer and congestion control at transport layer, and by taking advantage of the MAC layer information, our approach can avoid the throughput degradation caused by wireless link error, and better support the QoS requirements of the application. Thus, the playback quality is significantly improved, while good performance of the transport protocol is still preserved.

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