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Summary: Traffic-Aware Video Streaming in Broadband
Wireless Networks
Ehsan Haghani and Nirwan Ansari Shyam Parekh and Doru Colin
Advanced Networking Lab Bell Labs
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Alcatel-Lucent
New Jersey Institute of Technology Murray Hill, NJ 07974, USA
Newark, NJ 07102, USA
Abstract--With increasing implementation of broadband wire-
less networks and extensive deployment of multimedia services
such as Video on Demand (VoD) or IPTV, the demand for video
streaming applications will increase and more people will use
their wireless devices to reach numerous video contents available
in the Internet. Streaming real-time video in wireless networks is
a challenging problem due to the stringent service requirements
of video traffic and impairments of wireless channels. Providing
the required Quality of Service (QoS) through efficient resource
allocation is a complicated problem that service providers are
confronting. In this paper, we propose a traffic-aware, cross-
layer solution for enhancing the perceived video quality at the
end user in wireless networks. Our solution incorporates the
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