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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Multimedia Volume 2007, Article ID 13969, 12 pages doi:10.1155/2007/13969 Research Article Cross-Layer Perceptual ARQ for Video Communications over 802.11e Wireless Networks P. Bucciol,1 E. Masala,1 E. Filippi,2 and J. C. De Martin1 1 Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24, 10129 Torino, Italy 2 Advanced System Technologies, STMicroelectronics S.r.l., Cornaredo, 20010 Milano, Italy Received 29 December 2006; Revised 13 April 2007; Accepted 2 July 2007 Recommended by Zhu Han This work presents an application-level perceptual ARQ algorithm for video streaming over 802.11e wireless networks. A sim- ple and effective formula is proposed to combine the perceptual and temporal importance of each packet into a single priority value, which is then used to drive the packet-selection process at each retransmission opportunity. Compared to the standard 802.11 MAC-layer ARQ scheme, the proposed technique delivers higher perceptual quality because it can retransmit only the most perceptually important packets reducing retransmission bandwidth waste. Video streaming of H.264 test sequences has been simu- lated with ns in a realistic 802.11e home scenario, in which the various kinds of traffic flows have been assigned to different 802.11e access categories according to the Wi-Fi alliance WMM specification. Extensive simulations show that the proposed method con- sistently outperforms the standard link-layer 802.11 retransmission scheme, delivering PSNR gains up to 12 dB while achieving low transmission delay and limited impact on concurrent traffic. Moreover, comparisons with a MAC-level ARQ scheme which adapts the retry limit to the type of frame contained in packets and with an application-level deadline-ba