Oracle media server: providing consumer based interactive access to multimedia data
SIGMOD '94 Proceedings of the 1994 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Quality of service support over multi-service wireless Internet links
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking - QoS for IP networks
Dynamic Server Selection using Bandwidth Probing in Wide-Area Networks
Dynamic Server Selection using Bandwidth Probing in Wide-Area Networks
A measurement study of available bandwidth estimation tools
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
A wireless traffic probe for radio resource management and QoS provisioning in IEEE 802.11 WLANs
MSWiM '04 Proceedings of the 7th ACM international symposium on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
The changing usage of a mature campus-wide wireless network
Proceedings of the 10th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Bandwidth estimation in broadband access networks
Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
Dynamic bandwidth management in single-hop ad hoc wireless networks
Mobile Networks and Applications
From myth to methodology: cross-layer design for energy-efficient wireless communication
Proceedings of the 42nd annual Design Automation Conference
Quality-of-service mapping mechanism for packet video indifferentiated services network
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
Evaluation and characterization of available bandwidth probing techniques
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Achieving energy-efficiency with DTN: a proof-of-concept and roadmap study
WWIC'12 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communication
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The popularity of multimedia streaming services via wireless networks presents major challenges in the management of network bandwidth. One challenge is to quickly and precisely estimate the available bandwidth for the decision of streaming rates of layered and scalable multimedia services. Previous studies based on wired networks are too burdensome to be applied to multimedia applications in wireless networks. In this paper, a new method, IdleGap, is suggested to estimate the available bandwidth of a wireless LAN based on the information from a low layer in the protocol stack. We use a network simulation tool, NS-2, to evaluate our new method with various ranges of cross-traffic and observation times. Our simulation results show that IdleGap accurately estimates the available bandwidth for all ranges of cross-traffic (100 Kbps ∼ 1 Mbps) with a very short observation time of 10 seconds.