Research Profile
- My research is in the area of Multimedia Wireless Communications.
- I supervise the Multimedia Wireless Networks Lab.
Research Summary
In recent years there has been a tremendous growth in the demand for
high fidelity multimedia content delivery in wireless networks for
applications such as video conferencing, interactive gaming and surveillance.
This fact, combined with the development of cutting edge wireless communication
technologies such as Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) has led
to the advent and standardization of ultra high-speed 4G wireless standards
such as LTE, WiMAX and 802.11n. Such networks are envisaged to support high
definition video content delivery on demand and ensure proportionally fair QoS
of transmission. However, realizing such a paradigm over existing wireless
solutions is extremely challenging due to the harsh nature of the wireless
channel combined with the existing inefficient wireline based multimedia
transmission schemes.
Our efforts are focused towards the development of state-of-the-art solutions to
statistically characterize the
quality of the video content and for dynamic resource allocation in 4G
wireless networks. This will in turn optimize the delivery of multimedia content over various
protocols, while utilizing the bandwidth resources efficiently. The objective of
the research initiatives is to intelligently combine aspects of 4G communication with
novel video processing schemes to develop efficient video/multimedia transmission
algorithms that ensure reliability of the received content, while efficiently
utilizing the bandwidth resources. This in turn will have a tremendous impact
on the speed, scale and robustness of such wireless multimedia applications.
