Implementation and evaluation of cross-layer design with distributed and sequential mapping scheme for video application over IEEE 802.11e

Abstract

The rapid development of wireless communication imposes several challenges to support QoS for real-time multimedia applications such as video stream applications. Researchers tackled these challenges from different points of view including the semantics of the video to achieve better QoS requirements. The main goal of this research is to extend the UDP protocol to realize a distributed sequential mapping scheme (DSM) with a cross-layer design and evaluate its accuracy under different network conditions. In DSM, the perceived quality of a multi-layer video is addressed by mapping each video layer into channel resources represented as queues or access categories (ACs) existing in IEEE 802.11e MAC layer. The experiments reported the efficiency of this scheme with the presence of different composite traffic models covering most known traffic scenarios using Expected Reconstructed Video Layers (ERVL) and packet loss rate as accuracy measures. In Experiments without ongoing traffic, ERVL continuously reported high values, while ERVL values dramatically vary when introducing ongoing different composite traffic models together with the testing video sessions between nodes. 2016 IEEE.