Multipath routing over wireless mesh networks for multiple description video transmission

  • Authors:

  • Bo Rong;Yi Qian;Kejie Lu;Rose Qingyang Hu;Michel Kadoch

  • Affiliations:

  • Communications Research Center Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada;Department of Computer and Electronics Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Omaha, NE;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico;Research In Motion, Irving, TX;Department of Electrical Engineering, Ecole de Technologie Superieure, Universite du Quebec, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In the past few years, wireless mesh networks (WMNs) have drawn significant attention from academia and industry as a fast, easy, and inexpensive solution for broadband wireless access. In WMNs, it is important to support video communications in an efficient way. To address this issue, this paper studies the multipath routing for multiple description (MD) video delivery over IEEE 802.11 based WMN. Specifically, we first design a framework to transmit MD video over WMNs through multiple paths; we then investigate the technical challenges encountered. In our proposed framework, multipath routing relies on the maximally disjoint paths to achieve good traffic engineering performance. However, video applications usually have strict delay requirements, which make it difficult to find multiple qualified paths with the least joints. To overcome this problem, we develop an enhanced version of Guaranteed-Rate (GR) packet scheduling algorithm, namely virtual reserved rate GR (VRR-GR), to shorten the packet delay of video communications in multiservice network environment. Simulation study shows that our proposed approach can reduce the latency of video delivery and achieve desirable traffic engineering performance in multipath routing environment.