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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications

Bandwidth Allocation Considering Priorities among Multimedia Components in Mobile Networks

Shigeki SHIOKAWA, Shuji TASAKA

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This paper proposes a bandwidth allocation scheme which improves degradation of communication quality due to handoffs in mobile multimedia networks. In general, a multimedia call consists of several component calls. For example, a video phone call consists of a voice call and a video call. In realistic environments, each component call included in one multimedia call may have different requirements for quality-of-service (QoS) from each other, and priorities among these component calls often exist with respect to importance for communications. When the available bandwidth is not enough for a handoff call, the proposed scheme eliminates a low priority component call and defers bandwidth allocation for a component call whose delay related QoS is not strict. Moreover, in the allocation, the scheme gives priority to new calls and handoff calls over a deferred call and also performs bandwidth reallocation to eliminated component calls. By computer simulation, we evaluate the performance such as call dropping probability and show effectiveness of the proposed scheme.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E84-B No.5 pp.1344-1355
Publication Date
2001/05/01
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Category
Wireless Communication Technology

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