Evaluation of Shared Bandwidth for Mobile Multimedia Networks Using a Diffusion Model

Yoneo WATANABE  Noriteru SHINAGAWA  Takehiko KOBAYASHI  Masaki AIDA  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E82-A   No.7   pp.1287-1291
Publication Date: 1999/07/25
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Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: Special Section LETTER (Special Section on Multi-dimensional Mobile Information Networks)
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Keyword: 
packet,  shared bandwidth,  multimedia,  mobile communication,  self-similarity,  

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Summary: 
This letter proposes a diffusion model that considers both mobility and multimedia based on the user population process to examine the effects of multimedia in mobile communications. As an application example of this model, the shared bandwidth that can be used by one user in packet communications is evaluated. In this model, the user speed and variation in the number of users in a cell are interrelated with respect to mobility. By examining the shared bandwidth behavior based on multimedia teletraffic characteristics, assuming that the number of simultaneously-communicating users within a cell have self-similarity, we found that shared bandwidth and its variance are not dependent on self-similarity but that variance in the shared bandwidth is dependent on user speed.