Impact of the IEEE 802.11aa Intra-AC Prioritization on QoE for H.264 Compression

Katarzyna Kosek-Szott, Marek Natkaniec, Lukasz Prasnal, Lucjan Janowski

2014

Abstract

Recently, a new 802.11aa amendment has been released. Its main goal is to increase quality of service support for audio-video traffic streams. Among others, it defines the intra-access category prioritization mechanism coupled with appropriate traffic selection procedures, in order to increase the granularity of traffic prioritization in comparison to the currently used EDCA. This paper presents the preliminary study of the possible impact of the new feature on quality of experience (QoE) in case of H.264 video streams. The obtained results show that IEEE 802.11aa and 802.1Q parameters should be tuned to efficiently use the available bandwidth.

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Kosek-Szott K., Natkaniec M., Prasnal L. and Janowski L. (2014). Impact of the IEEE 802.11aa Intra-AC Prioritization on QoE for H.264 Compression . In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Wireless Information Networks and Systems - Volume 1: WINSYS, (ICETE 2014) ISBN 978-989-758-047-5, pages 65-70. DOI: 10.5220/0005118800650070


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@conference{winsys14,
author={Katarzyna Kosek-Szott and Marek Natkaniec and Lukasz Prasnal and Lucjan Janowski},
title={Impact of the IEEE 802.11aa Intra-AC Prioritization on QoE for H.264 Compression},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Wireless Information Networks and Systems - Volume 1: WINSYS, (ICETE 2014)},
year={2014},
pages={65-70},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005118800650070},
isbn={978-989-758-047-5},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Wireless Information Networks and Systems - Volume 1: WINSYS, (ICETE 2014)
TI - Impact of the IEEE 802.11aa Intra-AC Prioritization on QoE for H.264 Compression
SN - 978-989-758-047-5
AU - Kosek-Szott K.
AU - Natkaniec M.
AU - Prasnal L.
AU - Janowski L.
PY - 2014
SP - 65
EP - 70
DO - 10.5220/0005118800650070