Expanding window fountain codes for scalable video multicast

D. Vukobratovic; Vladimir M. Stankovic; D. Sjedinovic; L. Stankovic; Z. Xiong

doi:10.1109/ICME.2008.4607375

Expanding window fountain codes for scalable video multicast

D. Vukobratovic, Vladimir M. Stankovic, D. Sjedinovic, L. Stankovic, Z. Xiong

Electronic And Electrical Engineering

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Abstract

Digital Fountain (DF) codes have recently been suggested as an efficient forward error correction (FEC) solution for video multicast to heterogeneous receiver classes over lossy packet networks. However, to adapt DF codes to low-delay constraints and varying importance of scalable multimedia content, unequal error protection (UEP) DF schemes are needed. Thus, in this paper, Expanding Window Fountain (EWF) codes are proposed as a FEC solution for scalable video multicast. We demonstrate that the design flexibility and UEP performancemake EWF codes ideally suited for this scenario, i.e., EWF codes offer a number of design parameters to be "tuned" at the server side to meet the different reception conditions of heterogeneous receivers. Performance analysis of H.264 Scalable Video Coding (SVC) multicast to heterogeneous receiver classes confirms the flexibility and efficiency of the proposed EWF-based FEC solution.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (2008)
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	77-80
Number of pages	3
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4244-2570-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICME.2008.4607375
Publication status	Published - 26 Aug 2009

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digital fountain codes
scalable video multicast
unequal error protection

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