Copyright © 2008 The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers
Regular Section -- Papers -- Multimedia Systems for Communications |
Dynamic Resource Adjustment to Provide Seamless Streaming Services on Multimedia Mobile Cellular Networks
1 The authors are with the Department of Information Management, Southern Taiwan University, Tainan, Taiwan (R.O.C.). E-mail: mikelin{at}mail.stut.edu.tw; frank{at}msrg.mis.stut.edu.tw
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With the rapid advances in wireless network communication, multimedia presentation has become more applicable. However, due to the limited wireless network resource and the mobility of Mobile Host (MH), QoS for wireless streaming is much more difficult to maintain. How to decrease Call Dropping Probability (CDP) in multimedia traffic while still keeping acceptable Call Block Probability (CBP) without sacrificing QoS has become an significant issue in providing wireless streaming services. In this paper, we propose a novel Dynamic Resources Adjustment (DRA) algorithm, which can dynamically borrow idle reserved resources in the serving cell or the target cell for handoffing MHs to compensate the shortage of bandwidth in media streaming. The experimental simulation results show that compared with traditional No Reservation (NR), and Resource Reservation in the six neighboring cells (RR-nb), and Resource Reservation in the target cell(RR-t), our proposed DRA algorithm can fully utilize unused reserved resources to effectively decrease the CDP while still keeping acceptable CBP with high bandwidth utilization.
Key Words: dynamic resource adjustment, resource reservation, multimedia mobile cellular network, streaming, QoS
Manuscript received November 6, 2006. Manuscript revised July 22, 2007.