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A multiuser simulation system for video transmission over HSDPA

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With the explosive growth of multimedia applications, video transmission over HSDPA networks has attracted more and more attentions. Particularly in the last few years, lots of special transmission schemes have been proposed to improve the end-to-end qualities of mobile video applications. However, due to lack of a common video delivery simulation platform over HSDPA networks, the researchers have met obstacles in evaluating and comparing the performance of these schemes in a unified simulation environment. To fill this gap, a common system-level video transmission simulation platform is proposed in this paper, which is implemented specially for the HSDPA networks. To the best of our knowledge, this platform is the first one in integrating the video encoder/decoder, the video quality evaluator and the HSDPA simulator together. In this way, the researchers can study and analyze not only the overall system performance of the video-aware cross-layer transmission solutions, but also explore the influence and interaction of those separate sub-layers in the HSDPA wireless networks, such as the video application-layer, the transmission control layer, the HSDPA MAC layer, and the physical layer. Moreover, to test and verify our simulation platform, we implement eight representative fast scheduling algorithms over the HSDPA networks, and evaluate their transmission performances for the H.264/AVC video applications. Experimental simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness and rationality of our simulation system.

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Abbreviations

UMTS:

Universal mobile telecommunications system

HSDPA:

High speed downlink packet access

CN:

Core network

SGSN:

Serving GPRS support node

GGSN:

Gateway GPRS support node

IuR:

Iu between RNC and RNC

Iu:

Interface to user

IuB:

Iu between node B and RNC

IuCS:

Iu towards the circuit switched-service domain

IuPS:

Iu towards the packet switched-service domain

RNC:

Radio network controller

NodeB:

Base-station node

UE:

User equipment

AMC:

Adaptive moduling and coding

HARQ:

Hybrid automatic repeat request

MAC-d:

MAC entity handling dedicated channels (DCH)

MAC-HS:

MAC entity handling shared channel (DSCH)

RRC:

Radio resource control

RLC:

Radio link control

PDCP:

Packet data convergence protocol

RR:

Round Robin

MAX C/I:

Max carrier-to-interface ratio

PF:

Proportional fair

MLWDF:

Modified largest weighted delay first

FT:

Fair throughput

SB:

Score based

EDF:

Early deadline first

RG:

Rate ground

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This work is supported in part by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Project No.No.60972066, and the National Key Project No.2010ZX03003-001.

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    Qinli Wang, Guizhong Liu, Haidong Wang, Yuchen Chen, Rui Deng, Lijun He & Zhao Liu

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Wang, Q., Liu, G., Wang, H. et al. A multiuser simulation system for video transmission over HSDPA. Multimed Tools Appl 72, 3105–3142 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-013-1596-4

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