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In this paper we present a Multimedia Wireless Management System, which can be used on-line to assess and guarantee the quality of multimedia traffic in a wireless network. The proposed platform uses both network and application layer metrics to build up a scalable quality assessment of multimedia traffic. Moreover, the system provides traffic provisioning capabilities by coordinating the network access and usage both from the wireless node and from the network access point. These two combined features permit our platform to guarantee a satisfactory multimedia user experience in wireless environments. We evaluate our proposal by issuing an experimental deployment in a testbed and performing a series of tests under different network situations to demonstrate the Quality of Experience guaranties of our system. The results show that the quality of video perceived by end-users is considerably improved compared to the typical wireless network.
This work was partially funded by Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation under contract TEC2009-07041, and the Catalan Government under contract 2009 SGR1508.
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Serral-Gracià , R., Yannuzzi, M., Marin-Tordera, E., Masip-Bruin, X., Sánchez, S. (2010). Quality of Experience Enforcement in Wireless Networks. In: Osipov, E., Kassler, A., Bohnert, T.M., Masip-Bruin, X. (eds) Wired/Wireless Internet Communications. WWIC 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6074. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13315-2_15
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