Practical channel-adaptive video streaming with fountain codes.
Date
2008-10
Authors
Ahmad, Shakeel
Hamzaoui, Raouf
Al-Akaidi, Marwan, 1959-
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IEEE
Peer reviewed
Yes
Abstract
Video streaming is sensitive to packet loss,
which can severely damage the quality of the received video.
Video communication systems that rely on application-layer
forward error correction (FEC) to combat packet loss are
particularly suitable for pervasive computing because they
can be used on top of any existing network architecture.
However, since in heterogeneous environments network con-
ditions are unpredictable, determining the right amount
of redundancy introduced by the channel encoder is not
obvious. This paper presents a practical implementation of
a unicast video streaming system that solves this problem
by using a rateless code and receiver feedback. In real
simulations over the Internet our solution outperformed
a standard approach based on fixed-rate forward error
correction. For an Internet connection Konstanz-Beijing-
Konstanz and the standard Foreman sequence compressed
with the H.264 video coder, the gain in average peak signal
to noise ratio exceeded 3.5 decibels at 90 kilobits per second
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Keywords
channel coding, video streaming, rateless codes, LT codes
Citation
Ahmad, S. Hamzaoui, R. and Al-Akaidi, M. (2008) Practical channel-adaptive video streaming with fountain codes. Proc. ICPCA 08, The Third International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Applications, Alexandria, 1, pp. 351-355.
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