A core challenge in wireless communication is choosing appropriate transmission rates for packets. This rate selection problem is well understood in the context of unicast communication from a sender to a known receiver that can reply with acknowledgments. The problem is more difficult, however, in the multicast scenario where a sender must communicate with a potentially large and changing grou...

Throughput is an important performance measure for data communications over wireless links. In this work, we consider joint adaptation of coding rates, modulation modes and level of cooperation for cooperative relaying to maximize the data throughput. We consider five different schemes with joint adaptation based on channel statistics: Direct transmission, conventional multihop, stationary and ...

This paper presents a novel hybrid RTSP, SIP and HTTP solution for providing converged WebTV services with automatic Rate Adaptation of multimedia content. The prototypical solution, being developed under the scope of the My-eDirector 2012 european project, was deployed in a high-bandwidth LAN and some preliminary tests were performed.

The effectiveness of rate adaptation algorithms is an important determinant of 802.11 wireless network performance. The diversity of algorithms that has resulted from efforts to improve rate adaptation has introduced a new dimension of variability into 802.11 wireless networks, further complicating the already difficult task of understanding and debugging 802.11 performance. To assist with this...