Mobile Lightweight Wireless Systems. First International ICST Conference, MOBILIGHT 2009, Athens, Greece, May 18-20, 2009, Revised Selected Papers

Research Article

Application-Aware Dynamic Retransmission Control in Mobile Cellular Networks

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-03819-8_5,
        author={Nadhir Halima and Dzmitry Kliazovich and Fabrizio Granelli},
        title={Application-Aware Dynamic Retransmission Control in Mobile Cellular Networks},
        proceedings={Mobile Lightweight Wireless Systems. First International ICST Conference, MOBILIGHT 2009, Athens, Greece, May 18-20, 2009, Revised Selected Papers},
        proceedings_a={MOBILIGHT},
        year={2012},
        month={6},
        keywords={Hybrid ARQ (HARQ) cellular networks service aware protocols},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-642-03819-8_5}
    }
    
  • Nadhir Halima
    Dzmitry Kliazovich
    Fabrizio Granelli
    Year: 2012
    Application-Aware Dynamic Retransmission Control in Mobile Cellular Networks
    MOBILIGHT
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03819-8_5
Nadhir Halima1,*, Dzmitry Kliazovich1,*, Fabrizio Granelli1,*
  • 1: University of Trento
*Contact email: nadhir@disi.unitn.it, kliazovich@disi.unitn.it, granelli@disi.unitn.it

Abstract

This paper proposes an application-aware cross-layer approach between application/transport layers on the mobile terminal and link layer at the wireless base station to enable dynamic control on the strength of per-packet error protection for multimedia and data transfers. Specifically, in the context of cellular networks, the proposed scheme allows to control the desired level of Hybrid ARQ (HARQ) protection by using an in-band control feedback channel. Such protection is dynamically adapted on a per-packet basis and depends on the perceptual importance of different packets as well as on the reception history of the flow.