A Lossless Handover Method for Video Transmission in Mobile ATM Networks and Its Experimental Evaluation

Masaya NISHIO  Noriteru SHINAGAWA  Takehiko KOBAYASHI  

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E82-A   No.7   pp.1194-1201
Publication Date: 1999/07/25
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Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Multi-dimensional Mobile Information Networks)
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Keyword: 
mobile ATM network,  handover,  cell loss,  cell delay variation,  MPEG2,  subjective assessment,  

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Summary: 
Cell loss is one of the most important metrics of quality of service in ATM mobile communication systems. This loss can be suppressed by introducing buffer memories in the network, but that sacrifices delay. This paper proposes a lossless handover scheme for ATM mobile communication networks that can suppress delay fluctuations, and presents a subjective evaluation of MPEG2 images with various buffer memory sizes.