title: Fragility issues of medical video streaming over 802.11e-WLAN m-health environments.
abstract: This paper presents some of the fragility issues of a medical video streaming over 802.11e-WLAN in m-health applications. In particular, we present a medical channel-adaptive fair allocation (MCAFA) scheme for enhanced QoS support for IEEE 802.11 (WLAN), as a modification for the standard 802.11e enhanced distributed coordination function (EDCF) is proposed for enhanced medical data performance. The medical channel-adaptive fair allocation (MCAFA) proposed extends the EDCF, by halving the contention window (CW) after zeta consecutive successful transmissions to reduce the collision probability when channel is busy. Simulation results show that MCAFA outperforms EDCF in-terms of overall performance relevant to the requirements of high throughput of medical data and video streaming traffic in 3G/WLAN wireless environments.
authors.affiliation: Mobile Inf. & Network Technol. Centre, Kingston London Univ., London, UK. edtyy0110@gmail.com
authors.forename: Yow-Yiong Edwin
authors.initials: YY
authors.lastname: Tan
authors.forename: Nada
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Philip
authors.forename: Robert H
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Istepanian
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003201:Computers; D044962:Data Compression; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D006801:Humans; D007089:Image Enhancement; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D020407:Internet; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009040:Motion Pictures; D011336:Probability; D012371:Robotics; D012984:Software; D013685:Telecommunications; D014741:Video Recording / Q000379:methods*