Predição de qualidade de experiência para internet do futuro em arquiteturas heterogêneas de redes sem fio móveis

Abstract

The Next Generation Networks are architectures that allow vertical handovers and the user-centric vision by the appropriate Quality of Experience (QoE) provisioning for multimedia applications. The discussion is much less protocol-oriented perspective and is more service-oriented perspective. This thesis presents an architecture for next-generation networks to provide wireless heterogeneous access and seamless vertical handover for multimedia applications. The proposal considers different wireless technologies and also adopts the standard IEEE 802.21 (Media Independent Handover – MIH) to assist in the integration and the mobility management of heterogeneous wireless networks. The technologies in architecture are: IEEE 802.11 (popular known as Wi-Fi), IEEE 802.16 (popular known as WiMAX) and LTE (popular known as Fourth Generation – 4G). The objective is to choose the best connection for user. The proposal architecture presents mechanisms to predict quality of experience that will be decisive parameter to do or do not the handover, the prediction will be using artificial intelligence neural networks, in addition to architecture also provides a mechanism for QoE discard packets to specific multimedia applications. The proposal is evaluated by simulation using the ns-2 (Network Simulator) and the performance results are presented through the QoS/QoE metrics and also visually by displaying the video frames transmitted in architecture.