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QoS guarantee for multimedia traffic in smart homes

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Cuneyt Akinlar,

Hesham El-SayedAuthors Info & Claims

Multimedia Tools and Applications, Volume 47, Issue 1

Pages 87 - 103

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-009-0408-3

Published: 01 March 2010 Publication History

Abstract

With the advent of home networking and widespread deployment of broadband connectivity to homes, a wealth of new services with real-time Quality of Service (QoS) requirements have emerged, e.g., Video on Demand (VoD), IP Telephony, which have to co-exist with traditional non-real-time services such as Web browsing and file downloading over the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). The co-existence of such real-time and non-real-time services demands the residential gateway (RG) to employ bandwidth management algorithms to control the amount of non-real-time TCP traffic on the broadband access link from the Internet Service Provider (ISP) to the RG so that the bandwidth requirements of the real-time traffic are satisfied. In this paper we propose an algorithm to control the aggregate bandwidth of the incoming non-real-time TCP traffic at the RG so that QoS requirements of the real-time traffic can be guaranteed. The idea is to limit the maximum data rates of active TCP connections by dynamically manipulating their flow control window sizes based on the total available bandwidth for the non-real-time traffic. We show by simulation results that our algorithm limits the aggregate bandwidth of the non-real-time TCP traffic thus granting the real-time traffic the required bandwidth.

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Bo CXiaoxiao HShicheng ZJunliang C(2018)Concurrent home multimedia conferencing platform using a service component architectureMultimedia Tools and Applications10.1007/s11042-014-2210-074:23(10847-10872)Online publication date: 31-Dec-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s11042-014-2210-0
Holroyd PWatten PNewbury P(2010)Why is my home not smart?Proceedings of the Aging friendly technology for health and independence, and 8th international conference on Smart homes and health telematics10.5555/1894439.1894447(53-59)Online publication date: 22-Jun-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1894439.1894447

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March 2010

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Bo CXiaoxiao HShicheng ZJunliang C(2018)Concurrent home multimedia conferencing platform using a service component architectureMultimedia Tools and Applications10.1007/s11042-014-2210-074:23(10847-10872)Online publication date: 31-Dec-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s11042-014-2210-0
Holroyd PWatten PNewbury P(2010)Why is my home not smart?Proceedings of the Aging friendly technology for health and independence, and 8th international conference on Smart homes and health telematics10.5555/1894439.1894447(53-59)Online publication date: 22-Jun-2010
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