Service-Aware Retransmission Control in Cellular Networks. (15th July 2010)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ben Halima, Nadhir; Kliazovich, Dzmitry; Granelli, Fabrizio
• Other Names: Skianis Charalabos Academic Editor.
• Is Part Of: Journal of computer systems, networks, and communications. Volume 2010(2010)
• Publication Date: 2010-07-15
• Subjects: Computer systems -- Periodicals; Computer networks -- Periodicals; Computer networks; Computer systems; Periodicals; Electronic journals; 004.605
• DOI: 10.1155/2010/256964
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1687-7381

Abstract

Abstract : This paper proposes a service-aware cross-layer approach between application/transport layers on the mobile terminal and link layer on the wireless base station to enable dynamic control on the level of per-packet error protection for multimedia data streams. Specifically, in the context of cellular networks, the proposed scheme enables the mobile terminal to specify to the base station the desired level of Hybrid ARQ (HARQ) protection by using an in-band control feedback channel. Such protection is dynamically adapted on a per-packet basis and depends on the perceptual importance of different packets as well as on the reception history of the flow. Experimental results demonstrate the potential benefits deriving from the proposed strategy either for audio and video real-time streams as well as for TCP-based data transfers.