Popularity based Bandwidth Allocation for Video Broadcast/Multicast over Wireless Networks

Recently, video broadcast/multicast over wireless networks has created a significant interest in the field of wireless communication. However, the wireless resources have limitations to broadcast/multicast many video sessions at the same time with the best quality. Hence, during the video transmission through wireless networks, it is very important to make the best utilization of the limited bandwidth. When the system bandwidth is not sufficient to allocate the demanded bandwidth for all of the active broadcasting/multicasting video sessions, instead of allocating equal bandwidth to each of them, our proposed scheme allocates bandwidth per video session based on popularity of the video program. Using the mathematical and simulation analyses, we show that the proposed scheme maximizes average user satisfaction level. The simulation results also indicate that a large number of subscribers can receive a significantly improved quality of video. To improve the video quality for large number of subscribers, the only tradeoff is that a very few subscribers receive slightly degraded video quality.Comment: International Conference on ICT Convergence (ICTC), Sept. 2011, Seoul, Korea, pp. 373 -37

Adaptive Resource Management for Multimedia Applications in Femtocellular and Macrocellular Networks

The increasing demands of various high data rate wireless applications have been seen in the recent years and it will continue in the future. To fulfill these demands, the limited existing wireless resources should be utilized properly or new wireless technology should be developed. Therefore, we propose some novel idea to manage the wireless resources and deployment of femtocellular network technology. The study was mainly divided into two parts: (a) femtocellular network deployment and resource allocation and (b) resource management for macrocellular networks. The femtocellular network deployment scenarios, integrated femtocell/macrocell network architectures, cost-effective frequency planning, and mobility management schemes are presented in first part. In the second part, we provide a CAC based on adaptive bandwidth allocation for the wireless network in. The proposed CAC relies on adaptive multi-level bandwidth-allocation scheme for non-real-time calls. We propose video service provisioning over wireless networks. We provide a QoS adaptive radio resource allocation as well as popularity based bandwidth allocation schemes for scalable videos over wireless cellular networks. All the proposed schemes are verified through several numerical and simulation results. The research results presented in this dissertation clearly imply the advantages of our proposed schemes.Comment: PhD Dessertatio