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Medium Access Control for Integrated Multimedia Wireless Access with the Use of a Video Packet Discard Scheme

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A well designed Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol for wireless networks should provide an efficient mechanism to share the limited bandwidth resources, and satisfy the diverse and usually contradictory Quality of Service (QoS) requirements of each traffic class. In this paper a new MAC protocol for next generation wireless communications is presented and investigated. The protocol uses a combined Packet Discard/Forward Error Correction scheme in order to efficiently integrate MPEG-4 videoconference packet traffic with voice, SMS data and web packet traffic over a noisy wireless channel of high capacity. Our scheme achieves high aggregate channel throughput in all cases of traffic load, while preserving the Quality of Service (QoS) requirements of each traffic type, and is shown to clearly outperform DPRMA, another efficient MAC protocol proposed in the literature for multimedia traffic integration over wireless networks.

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  2. Dept. of Electronics, Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Chania, Greece

    M. Vafiadis

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Dr. Polychronis Koutsakis was born in Hania, Greece, in 1974. He received his 5-year Diploma in Electrical Engineering in 1997 from the University of Patras, Greece and his MSc and Ph.D. degrees in Electronic and Computer Engineering in 1999 and 2002, respectively, from the Technical University of Crete, Greece. He was a Visiting Lecturer at the Electronic and Computer Engineering Department of the same University for three years (2003–2006). He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of McMaster University, Canada. His research interests focus on the design, modeling and performance evaluation of computer communication networks, and especially on the design and evaluation of multiple access schemes for multimedia integration over wireless networks, on call admission control and traffic policing schemes for both wireless and wired networks, on multiple access control protocols for mobile satellite networks, wireless sensor networks and powerline networks, and on traffic modeling. Dr. Koutsakis has authored more than 45 peer-reviewed papers in the above mentioned areas, has served as a Guest Editor for an issue of the ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review, as a TPC member for conferences such as IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE LCN and IEEE PerCom, will serve as Session Chair for the IEEE GLOBECOM 2006 Symposium on Satellite & Space Communications and serves as a reviewer for most of the major journal publications focused on his research field.

Moisis Vafiadis was born in Elefsina, Greece, in 1980. He has recently completed his studies towards the Diploma in Electronic Engineering at the Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Greece. His research interests focus on wireless personal communication networks, and especially on the MAC layer and on the development and testing of wireless multimedia applications.

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Koutsakis, P., Vafiadis, M. Medium Access Control for Integrated Multimedia Wireless Access with the Use of a Video Packet Discard Scheme. Wireless Pers Commun 39, 343–359 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-006-9059-0

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