Performance of a mixed-traffic CDMA2000 wireless network with scalable streaming video

This work has been submitted to the IEEE for possible publication. Copyright may be transferred without notice, after which this version will be superseded. Abstract CDMA2000 1X, one of the world’s first commercial third generation (3G) systems, offers high-speed data services in conjunction with the voice service. This high data rate capability of CDMA2000 1X enables delivery of real-time streaming video. To facilitate efficient network planning for wireless multimedia services, it is important to have a solid understanding of the feasibility and impact of delivering streaming video over a CDMA2000 1X network in the presence of voice and data traffic. This paper evaluates video streaming throughputs and wireless system capacities for a CDMA2000 1X network under mixed traffic conditions (including voice, web-browsing and streaming video traffic) through a multi-cell multi-user system-level event-driven simulation. We will also demonstrate the advantages of incorporating scalability and dynamic rate control (DRC) in wireless video streaming services.