Piggyback Packetization of Duplicate Packets for Packet-Loss Resilient Video Transmission

Man-keun SEO
Yo-won JEONG
Kwang-deok SEO
Jae-kyoon KIM

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E89-B    No.10    pp.2802-2808
Publication Date: 2006/10/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
DOI: 10.1093/ietcom/e89-b.10.2802
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: Special Section LETTER (Special Section on Mobile Multimedia Communications)
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Keyword: 
error resilience,  video communication,  video packetization,  

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Summary: 
The transmission of duplicate packets provides a loss-resilience without undue time-delay in the video transmission over packet loss networks. However, this method generally deteriorates the problem of traffic congestion because of the increased bit-rate for duplicate packet transmission. In this paper, we propose a set of techniques for an efficient packetization and transmission of duplicate video packets. The proposed method transmits the duplicate packet containing high priority data that is quite small in volume but very important for the reconstruction of the video. This method significantly reduces the required bit-rate for duplicate transmission. An efficient packetization method is also proposed to reduce additional packet overhead which is required for transmitting the duplicate data. It is shown by simulations that the proposed method remarkably improves the packet loss-resilience for video transmission only with small increase of redundant duplicated data for each slice.