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Computer Communications
Volume 30, Issue 2, 15 January 2007, Pages 404-415
 
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On providing dynamic resource allocation based on multimedia traffic prediction in satellite systems

P. KoutsakisCorresponding Author Contact Information, 1, a, E-mail The Corresponding Author

aDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada L8S 4K1

Received 31 December 2005; 
revised 25 August 2006; 
accepted 12 September 2006. 
Available online 9 October 2006.

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Abstract

The provision of acceptable Quality-of-Service (QoS) for integrated multimedia traffic over a geosynchronous earth orbit (GEO) satellite network demands the existence of a well-designed Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol. This paper proposes a new dynamic satellite bandwidth allocation technique (Predictive Resource Reservation Access, PRRA) which is based on accurate videoconference traffic prediction. Our work is combined with another work on data traffic modeling and prediction and is shown to provide very good throughput and delay results.

Keywords: Satellite networks; MAC protocol; H.263 video encoding; Multimedia traffic prediction

Article Outline

1. Introduction
2. Satellite MAC protocol classification
3. H.263 videoconference traffic modeling
4. Predictive Resource Reservation Access
4.1. The proposed scheduling approach
4.2. Conceptual comparison with relevant work
5. Simulation results and discussion
5.1. First implementation case: only video traffic present in the channel
5.2. Second implementation case: Combining video and data traffic models
6. Conclusions
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