The effects of jitter on the peceptual quality of video
MULTIMEDIA '99 Proceedings of the seventh ACM international conference on Multimedia (Part 2)
On the impact of delay on real-time multiplayer games
NOSSDAV '02 Proceedings of the 12th international workshop on Network and operating systems support for digital audio and video
Network game traffic modelling
NetGames '02 Proceedings of the 1st workshop on Network and system support for games
Link-level measurements from an 802.11b mesh network
Proceedings of the 2004 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
The effects of loss and latency on user performance in unreal tournament 2003®
Proceedings of 3rd ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Network and system support for games
IEEE 802.11 rate adaptation: a practical approach
MSWiM '04 Proceedings of the 7th ACM international symposium on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
Weather forecasting: predicting performance for streaming video over wireless LANs
NOSSDAV '05 Proceedings of the international workshop on Network and operating systems support for digital audio and video
Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGCHI International Conference on Advances in computer entertainment technology
Analysis of factors affecting players' performance and perception in multiplayer games
NetGames '05 Proceedings of 4th ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Network and system support for games
Measurements from an 802.11b Mobile Ad Hoc Network
WOWMOM '06 Proceedings of the 2006 International Symposium on on World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks
802.11b/g Link Level Measurements for an Outdoor Wireless Campus Network
WOWMOM '06 Proceedings of the 2006 International Symposium on on World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Effects of WLAN qos degradation on streamed MPEG4 video quality
NGI'04 Proceedings of the First international conference on Wireless Systems and Mobility in Next Generation Internet
A new packet loss model of the IEEE 802.11g wireless network for multimedia communications
IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics
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During the last couple of years, the trend towards mobile devices and wireless communication has continued. Today, the increased capabilities of these devices allow for a variety of multimedia applications. Interactive applications like gaming or teleconferencing have strict requirements regarding network latency, jitter and packet loss. However, wireless networks such as IEEE S02.Ualb/g have very different characteristics than wired networks because they cannot reliably detect collisions and are subject to interference. In this paper, we take a closer look at WLAN as the network of choice for time-critical and interactive multimedia applications. We discuss network impairment in wireless networks in general and present several measurements in different scenarios. By using a modified Linux WLAN driver, we were able to obtain detailed MAC layer information from our measurements which we then use to discuss the reasons behind these impairments. Finally, we draw some conclusions for applications that work in such environments.