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End-to-End Performance Improvement of the Wireless Channel for Video Transmission

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Real time video transmission in wireless environment considers various parameters of wireless channel like information rate, error resiliency, security, end-to-end latency, quality of service etc. The available internet protocols are transmission control protocol and user datagram protocol (UDP). But most of the real-time applications uses UDP as their transport protocol. UDP is a fast protocol suitable for delay sensitive applications like video and audio transmission as it does not provide flow control or error recovery and does not require connection management. Due to the tremendous growth in wired and wireless real-time applications, some improvements should be made in the existing systems or protocols. Various techniques to improve end-to-end performance of system for real time video transmission over wireless channel are available in literature. Authors claim that the solution suggested in the paper provide more reliability in wireless video transmission. In the proposed solution, adaptive redundant packets are added in every block (or datagram) transmitted in order to achieve a desired recovery rate at the receiver. The suggested method dose not use any retransmission mechanism. The network simulator NS-2 is used to evaluate the method and the simulation results indicate that the proposed method can guarantee satisfied end-to-end performance by increased packet delivery ratio, reduced end-to-end delay and hence increased network throughput for video transmission in wireless network.

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Abbreviations

ACK:

Acknowledgment

ADICM:

Adaptive delta ICM

ADSICM:

Adaptive delta sigma ICM

ARQ:

Automatic repeat request

CBP:

Calculated block probability

CSI:

Channel state information

DBP:

Desired block probability

DICM:

Delta ICM

ELP:

Estimated loss probability

EnAFEC:

Enhanced Adaptive forward error correction

FEC:

Forward error correction

FTP:

File transfer protocol

HP:

Header packet

ICM:

Intelligent control unit

LP:

Lost packet

MAC:

Media access control protocol

NAM:

Network animation

NACK:

Negative ACK

NS-2:

Network simulator-2

OSI:

Open system interconnection

PHY:

Physical layer

PLB:

Packet loss probability

PLR:

Packet loss rate

QoS:

Quality of service

RP:

Redundancy packet

RTCP:

RTP control protocol

RTP:

Real time transmission protocol

RUDP:

Reliable UDP

SPX:

Packet exchange protocol

TCP/IP:

Transmission control protocol/IP

UDP:

User datagram protocol

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  1. Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering Department, Smt. Kashibai Navale College of Engineering, Vadagaon (Bk), Pune, 411 041, Maharashtra, India

    S. M. Koli

  2. Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering Department, Vishwakarma Institute of Information Technology, Kondhwa (Bk), Pune, 411 048, Maharashtra, India

    R. G. Purandare

  3. Anchor Tek Techno Consultancy Pvt. Ltd., Pune, 411 048, Maharashtra, India

    S. P. Kshirsagar

  4. Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering Department, Shree Sant Gajanan Maharaj College of Engineering, Shegaon, Maharashtra, India

    V. V. Gohokar

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Koli, S.M., Purandare, R.G., Kshirsagar, S.P. et al. End-to-End Performance Improvement of the Wireless Channel for Video Transmission. Wireless Pers Commun 73, 913–930 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-013-1223-8

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