Third Generation (3G) cellular networks utilize timevarying and location-dependent channel conditions to provide broadband services. They employ opportunistic scheduling to effic...
— In this paper, we propose an application-driven MAC-layer buffer management framework based on a novel Active Dropping (AD) mechanism for real-time video streaming in IEEE 802....
The popularity of distributed interactive applications has exploded in the last few years. For example, massive multi-player online games have become a fast growing, multi-million...
Since TCP can only detect congestion after packet losses have already happened, various forms of Fast TCP (FTCP) have been proposed to notify congestion early and avoid packet los...
Unlike non-time-critical applications like email and file transfer, network games demand timely data delivery to maintain the seemingly interactive presence of players in the vir...