Lecture 16: Wireless bit-rate adaptation

This lecture, we’ll continue with the physical layer, but applied to wireless networks instead of wired networks. In particular, we’ll talk about one problem that occurs in the wireless physical layer: wireless bit-rate adaptation. We’ll start by defining bit-rate adaptation. Then we’ll talk about bit-rate adaptation in an idealized model of the wireless environment. We’ll then discuss bit-rate adaptation in practice by describing the SampleRate bit-rate adaptation algorithm [1], one of the earliest bit-rate adaptation algorithms.