Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Adaptive Rate Optimal Design for Wireless Heterogeneous Networks: Jointly Congestion Discrimination and Queue Updating

  • Published:
Wireless Personal Communications Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a novel rate adaptive optimization scheme for streaming media transmission over wireless heterogeneous IP networks. In the proposed adaptive scheme, through the analysis of the packet loss characteristics in wireless channel, we develop the relationship between the packet loss rates and the packet sizes. Furthermore, the scheme detects the nature of packet losses by sending large and small packets alternately, and then adopts an adaptive rate optimization strategy to decrease the network congestion and increase the network throughput. Using congestion discrimination and updating factor, the scheme can adapt to the changes of network states quickly and improve delivery quality of wireless multimedia streaming. Simulation results show that, in comparisons to the existing rate optimization algorithms, our proposed scheme offers significantly improved performance in terms of throughput and network congestion, especially when the channel quality is poor in different network topology environments.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. Wang N.-C., Chen J.-S., Huang Y.-F., Chiou C.-L. (2008) Performance enhancement of TCP in dynamic bandwidth wired and wireless networks. Wireless Personal Communications 47(3): 399–415

    Article  Google Scholar 

  2. Lee H. J., Byun H. J., Lim J. T. (2008) TCP-friendly congestion control for streaming real-time applications over wireless networks. IET Communications 2(1): 159–163

    Article  Google Scholar 

  3. Wang T.-C., Fang H.-C., Chen L.-G. (2002) Low-delay and error-robust wireless video transmission for video communications. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology 12(12): 1049–1058

    Article  Google Scholar 

  4. Lahanas A. et al (2002) Improving TCP performance over networks with wireless components using ‘probing devices’. International Journal of Communication Systems 15: 495–511

    Article  MATH  Google Scholar 

  5. Tobe, Y., Tamura, Y., Molano, A., Ghosh, S., & Tokuda, H. (2000). Achieving moderate fairness for UDP flows by path-status classification. In Proceedings of the 25th annual IEEE conference local computer networks (LCN 2000), pp. 252–261, Tampa, FL.

  6. Cen S. et al (2003) End-to-end differentiation of congestion and wireless losses. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking 115: 703–717

    Google Scholar 

  7. Biaz S., Vaidya N. (2005) De-randomizing congestion losses to improve TCP performance over wired-wireless networks. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking 13(3): 596–608

    Article  Google Scholar 

  8. Park, M. K., Sihn, K.-H., & Jeong, J. H. (2006). A statistical method of packet loss type discrimination in wired-wireless networks. In Proceedings of the IEEE CCNC, pp. 458–462.

  9. Ha J., Park E.-C., Park K.-J., Choi C.-H. (2009) A cross-layer dual queue approach for improving TCP fairness in infrastructure WLANs. Wireless Personal Communications 51(3): 499–516

    Article  Google Scholar 

  10. Lee C. L. et al (2002) On the use of loss history for performance improvement of TCP over wireless networks. IEICE Transactions on Communications E85-B(11): 2457–2467

    Google Scholar 

  11. Floyd, S., et al. (1996) Router mechanisms to support end-to-end congestion control. LBL Technical Report, URL ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/papers/collapse.ps.

  12. Eckhardt, D., et al. (1998). Improving wireless LAN performance via adaptive local error control. In Proceedings of the 6th IEEE international conference on network protocols.

  13. Zhao H., Dong Y., Zhang H., Li Y. (2011) A cross-layer routing scheme using adaptive retransmission strategy for wireless mesh networks. Wireless Personal Communications 63(2): 345–361

    Article  Google Scholar 

  14. Li, Y., & Guan, Y. L. (2000). Modified Jakes model for simulating multiple uncorrelated fading waveforms. In Proceedings IEEE ICC (Vol. 1, pp. 46–49).

  15. Zhao, H.-T., Dong, Y., & Li, Y. (2010). An end-to-end loss discrimination scheme for multimedia transmission over wireless IP networks. In Adhoc networks, LNICST 28, pp. 718–728.

  16. Network Simulator 2 (NS-2). http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns.

  17. Choi B.-Y., Song S., Wang Y., Park Eun K. (2009) Using RTT variability for adaptive cross-layer approach to multimedia delivery in heterogeneous networks. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia 11(6): 1194–1203

    Article  Google Scholar 

  18. Dong, Y., & Chen, M. (2007). Real time video transmission control in wireless-wired IP networks. In Proceedings of the IEEE wireless communications and networking conference, pp. 3687–3691 (WCNC2007), Hong Kong.

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. College of Communication and Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, China

    Haitao Zhao, Dapeng Li, Nanjie Liu & Hui Zhang

  2. National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University, Nanjing, China

    Hui Zhang

Authors
  1. Haitao Zhao
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Dapeng Li
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Nanjie Liu
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Hui Zhang
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Haitao Zhao.

Additional information

This work was supported in part by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.60972038, No.61001077, and No. 61101105), the Natural Science Foundation of the Higher Education Institutions of Jiangsu Province (No.10KJB510013), and the Scientific Research Foundation for Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (No. NY211006 and No. NY211007).

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Zhao, H., Li, D., Liu, N. et al. Adaptive Rate Optimal Design for Wireless Heterogeneous Networks: Jointly Congestion Discrimination and Queue Updating. Wireless Pers Commun 70, 1321–1338 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-012-0749-5

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-012-0749-5

Keywords

Search

Navigation