Abstract
Wireless local area networks (WLANs) have swept across the globe in recent years as an inexpensive and convenient means for ubiquitous Internet access, thanks to the popularity of devices such as smart phones and tablet computers. By wireless communications and the Internet backbone technologies, WLANs provide services to both mobile and fixed users and have enabled a variety of applications. Given the lower cost and relatively higher throughput compared to cellular networks, WLANs are increasingly used to provide multimedia services such as video streaming. However, multimedia services have posed new requirements and significant technical challenges on the treatment of traffic within WLANs, to provide users seamless coverage and quality-of-service (QoS). The resource management of WLAN has become a very crucial part for future generation of wireless and mobile networks.
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The sample HD video stream is “From Mars to China” with a resolution of 1920 × 1080 and quantization parameters of 28, 28, and 30 for I, P, and B frames, respectively. The video is available at http://trace.eas.asu.edu/h264/mars/.
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Zhang, R., Cai, L., Pan, J. (2017). Overview. In: Resource Management for Multimedia Services in High Data Rate Wireless Networks. SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-6719-3_1
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