EXPANDING WINDOW FOUNTAIN CODES FOR SCALABLE VIDEO MULTICAST Conference Paper

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 performance make 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. 2008 IEEE.

name of conference

• 2008 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo

authors

• Xiong, Zixiang

published proceedings

• 2008 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo

author list (cited authors)

• Vukobratovi, D., Stankovi, V., Sejdinovi, D., Stankovi, L., & Xiong, Z.

citation count

• 22

complete list of authors

• Vukobratović, Dejan||Stanković, Vladimir||Sejdinović, Dino||Stanković, Lina||Xiong, Zixiang

publication date

• January 2008

publisher

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)  Publisher

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1109/icme.2008.4607375

International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 13

• 9781424425716

start page

• 77

end page

• 80