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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Multimedia Volume 2007, Article ID 70429, 7 pages doi:10.1155/2007/70429 Research Article Bandwidth Estimation in Wireless Lans for Multimedia Streaming Services Heung Ki Lee,1 Varrian Hall,1 Ki Hwan Yum,2 Kyoung Ill Kim,3 and Eun Jung Kim1 1 Department of Computer Science, Texas AM University, College Station, TX 77843-3112, USA 2 Department of Computer Science, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78249-1644, USA 3 Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), 161 Gajeong-Dong, Yusung-gu, Daejeon 305-700, South Korea Received 2 November 2006; Accepted 21 December 2006 Recommended by Jianfei Cai The popularity of multimedia streaming services via wireless networks presents major challenges in the management of network bandwidth. One challenge is to quickly and precisely estimate the available bandwidth for the decision of streaming rates of layered and scalable multimedia services. Previous studies based on wired networks are too burdensome to be applied to multimedia applications in wireless networks. In this paper, a new method, IdleGap, is suggested to estimate the available bandwidth of a wireless LAN based on the information from a low layer in the protocol stack. We use a network simulation tool, NS-2, to evaluate our new method with various ranges of cross-traffic and observation times. Our simulation results show that IdleGap accurately estimates the available bandwidth for all ranges of cross-traffic (100 Kbps ∼ 1 Mbps) with a very short observation time of 10 seconds. Copyright © 2007 Heung Ki Lee et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the or