METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR THE TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL VIDEO OVER A WIRELESS NETWORK

摘要

An apparatus, system and method are provided for adaptive flow control of layered streaming video over wireless local area networks (WLANs). In one aspect prioritised and adaptive transmission mechanisms are provided based on buffer fullness and discarding visually less important packets so that future visually more important packets can reach the decoder in time. In another aspect, aggregated control is provided for all video applications as well as separate control for each video application.