  The combination of video streaming services and wireless networks plays an
important role in many fields. In this paper, we present an NS-3-based
simulation platform for evaluating and optimizing the performance of the video
streaming application over wireless networks. The simulation is designed to
provide real-time measurements, and thus it saves the high costs for real
equipment. The developed platform consists of the video streaming server, video
streaming client, and wireless network environment, where the video streaming
operation is implemented under UDP protocol and is equipped with an
application-level adaptive rate controller. We use the platform to simulate
different use cases of sharing a wireless multi-access channel among multiple
video streams.
