Adaptive video transmission over multilink networks

Nowadays the importance of multilink networks is rapidly growing due to the expanding demand for high-speed Internet access and real-time video transmission. Moreover, in terrestrial systems that operate at high carrier frequencies (above 10 GHz) one of the most harmful circumstantial factors is the attenuation caused by precipitation, especially by rain. Since channel conditions can vary in time and space, selection of the used communication links depends on traffic load, latency, coverage and desired data rate. Therefore combining multilink architecture and adaptive video transmission can be an effective solution for broadcasting video streams. In this paper the efficiency of adaptive transmission scheme in a terrestrial multilink network will be presented.