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IEICE TRANS. COMMUN., VOL.E88–B, NO.4 APRIL 2005 1395 PAPER Special Section on Internet Technology V Effective Video Multicast over Wireless Internet: Rate Allocation and End-System Based Adaptation †a) † † †† ††† Hao YIN , Nonmember, Chuang LIN , Member, Jin-jun ZHUANG , Bo LI , and Qiang NI , Nonmembers SUMMARY With the rapid growth of wireless networks and great suc- matic link status variation, users’ mobility and scarce wire- cess of Internet video, wireless video services are expected to be widely less spectrum. In addition, the video streams co-exist and deployed in the near future. As different types of wireless networks are con- share the resources with the TCP-based data traffic typically verging into all IP networks, i.e., the Internet, it is important to study video delivery over the wireless Internet. This paper proposes a novel end-system in wireless Internet. It is thus important for the video traffic based adaptation protocol called Wireless Hybrid Adaptation Layered Mul- to be adaptive and friendly with the TCP traffic [3]. Lack ticast (WHALM) protocol for layered video multicast over wireless Inter- of bandwidth adaptability will lead to congestion collapse net. In WHALM the sender dynamically collects bandwidth distribution when the aggregate bandwidth of video traffic exceeds net- from the receivers and uses an optimal layer rate allocation mechanism to work capacity, whereas lack of TCP friendliness will result reduce the mismatches between the coarse-graine