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Unequal Loss Protection for H.264/AVC Video Streaming Over Wireless Networks

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An efficient unequal loss protection (ULP) scheme for robust delivery of pre-encoded video with data partitioning over packet-lossy wireless networks is presented. The proposed scheme employs forward error correction (FEC) across packets to cope with the unreliable situations of the channel. To optimally allocate FEC codes for the different partitions packets of the different frames in one group of pictures (GOP), the overall expected distortion over one GOP is developed as the performance metric to guide the optimization process. In addition, a low-complexity FEC allocation algorithm is also proposed. Experimental results demonstrate that, compared with the other loss protection schemes, the proposed scheme achieves better reconstructed video quality.

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The research was supported in part by National Natural Science Foundation Research Program of China under Grant No. 60902081, No. 60902052, and the 111 Project (B08038).

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    Nina Feng & Yilin Chang

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Feng, N., Chang, Y. Unequal Loss Protection for H.264/AVC Video Streaming Over Wireless Networks. J Sign Process Syst 78, 115–121 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11265-013-0826-3

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