Internet deploy new applications, such as voice over IP, video conference, video streaming, audio streaming, mission-critical financial data, employ the user datagram protocol (UDP) and have different requirements on the bandwidth from those of existing applications using transmission control protocol (TCP). TCP-friendliness and multimedia-friendliness “contradict” with each other. The possible...

It is expected that multimedia applications will be the most abundant application in the Internet and thousands of new wireless and mobile users will produce and share multimedia streaming content ubiquitously. In this multimedia-aware system, it is important to assure the end-to-end quality level support for video and voice applications in wireless systems. Traditional Quality of Service (QoS)...

With the growth of wireless networks, Wireless Mesh Network (WMN) has appeared as an emerging key solution for broadband Internet access with a low-cost deployment. Moreover, providing QoS guarantees for real-time and streaming applications such as VoIP (Voice over IP) and VoD (Video on Demand) is a challenging issue in such environment. In this paper, we propose a hybrid wireless mesh architec...

Status of This Memo This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. This RFC is not a candidate for any level of Internet Standard. There are IETF standards which are highly applicable to the space defined by this document as its applicability, in particular, RFCs 3393 and 3611, and there is...

As communications technology is being developed, users’ demand for multimedia services raises. Meanwhile, the Internet has enjoyed tremendous growth in recent years. Consequently, there is a great interest in using the IP-based networks to provide multimedia services. One of the most important areas in which the issues are being debated is the development of standards for the universal mobile t...

Successful speech communication often requires selective attention to a target stream amidst competing sounds, as well as the ability to switch attention among multiple interlocutors. However, auditory attention switching negatively affects both target detection accuracy and reaction time, suggesting that attention switches carry a cognitive cost. Pupillometry is one method of assessing mental ...

In the recent years, there has been an increasing demand for high quality multimedia services over wireless networks. Triple play services (voice, data and video) require data-rates of the order of several megabits per second (Mbps). However, the large transmission distance and the limited battery power of the hand-held wireless device serves as a major bottleneck. There has been no successful ...

— The Internet is being increasingly used to support streaming media applications and real-time voice telephony. Audio and video traffic differs from that generated by traditional TCP applications, and, as its use grows, may begin to have a significant impact on network performance. This motivates the need to measure multimedia traffic growth and characteristics. Multimedia applications typical...