Advanced Video Communications over Wireless Networks

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Transmission Rate Adaptation in Multimedia WLAN: A Dynamic Games Approach^*

Jane Wei Huang, Hassan Mansour, and Vikram Krishnamurthy

CONTENTS

5.1    Introduction

5.1.1    Motivation for Stochastic Game Formulation

5.2    System Description and the Video Rate-Distortion Model

5.2.1    System Description

5.2.2    Scalable Rate-Distortion Modeling

5.2.2.1    Rate Model

5.2.2.2    Distortion Model

5.3    Uplink Rate Adaptation Problem Formulation

5.3.1    Actions, Transmission Reward, and Holding Cost

5.3.1.1    Actions

5.3.1.2    Transmission Reward

5.3.1.3    Holding Cost

5.3.2    Markovian Game Formulation

5.3.3    System Access Rule

5.3.4    Transition Probabilities and Switching Control Game Formulation

5.4    Nash Equilibrium Solutions to ...