An OFDM WLAN Multicast Hybrid Erasure Correction Prototype with Feedback Aggregation and Rate Adaptation
Conference: OFDM 2012 - 17th International OFDM Workshop 2012 (InOWo'12)
08/29/2012 - 08/30/2012 at Essen, Germany
Proceedings: OFDM 2012
Pages: 8Language: englishTyp: PDF
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Authors:
Miroll, Jochen; Beyer, Martin; Herfet, Thorsten (Telecommunications Lab and Intel Visual Computing Institute, Saarland University, Germany)
Abstract:
Aggregation of multicast feedback in time is evaluated herein with respect to physical layer rate adaptation in OFDM based WLANs. An opportunistic scheduler with perfect channel knowledge is used as an upper limit for multicast throughput. We find that feedback aggregation multicast performs close to this limit. In realistic fading scenarios, delay constrained audio-visual streaming performance of a hybrid overlay FEC prototype implementation – including feedback aggregation and rate adaptation – is evaluated by simulation. In this context, a popular unicast rate adaptation mechanism is extended to multicast streaming, and its residual error performance is improved significantly by simple means. Index Terms — OFDM; 802.11; MBMS; wireless multicast; feedback aggregation; rate adaptation