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Costs and Benefits of Fading for Streaming Media Over Wireless
Overview This paper discusses some salient aspects of the wireless channel, and the challenges and opportunities they pose for streaming media. In particular, the time-varying fading nature of the channel means that it is inherently unreliable, but also that significant throughput improvements are possible when scheduling is coupled opportunistically with channel fluctuations. Together, these characteristics mean that solutions designed for media distribution in wired contexts do not directly translate into appropriate wireless solutions. This paper discusses how channel, source, and application-dependent concepts such as multiuser diversity, opportunistic and collaborative communications, loss-tolerance, and differing application-dependent delay constraints can be exploited to pose new and useful constructs for streaming media over wireless.
| Publisher | Hewlett-Packard | File Format | |
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| Date Published | June 2005 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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