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SVC-aware selective repetition for robust streaming of scalable video

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3G video broadcast services employ forward error correction, together with Reed-Solomon erasure coding with appropriate interleaving, in the MAC layer to deal with bursts of errors. However, this method of error recovery is less effective at the margins of coverage where channel conditions are bad, so that mobiles experience higher error rates and longer error bursts: this effectively limits the service area for video applications. To overcome this problem, we augment scalable video coding (SVC) with a selective repetition scheme, which retransmits those packets within the layered structure of SVC that are most important for video. Simulations using an the example MPEG-4 fine granularity scalability video demonstrate that our scheme safeguards the important packets and improves the service quality. Furthermore, energy measurements show that it also extends battery life.

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  1. EvalVid is a framework and toolkit for conducting a unified assessment of the quality of video transmission. Besides measuring QoS parameters of the underlying network, such as loss rates, delays, and jitter, EvalVid supports subjective video quality evaluation of the received video based on the frame-by-frame PSNR calculation.

  2. The forward link of the 3GPP2 broadcast services system consists of a data channel that is divided into 1.67-ms time slots.

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Acknowledgments

This research was supported in part by the MSIP (Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning), Korea, under the ITRC (Information Technology Research Center) support program (NIPA-2014-H0301-14-1044) supervised by the NIPA (National ICT Industry Promotion Agency), and Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the MSIP (NRF-2013R1A1A1059188).

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Lee, J., Kang, K. SVC-aware selective repetition for robust streaming of scalable video. Wireless Netw 21, 115–126 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-014-0773-3

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