Abstract:
Streaming codes sequentially encode the source stream and reproduce each source packet with a fixed delay. We study multicast streaming codes (MU-SCo) that simultaneously...Show MoreMetadata
Abstract:
Streaming codes sequentially encode the source stream and reproduce each source packet with a fixed delay. We study multicast streaming codes (MU-SCo) that simultaneously serve two users : one user, whose channel introduces a burst-erasure length of B1 and tolerates a delay of T1 and a second user, whose channel introduces a burst-erasure length of B2 and tolerates a delay of T2. We show that the streaming capacity intricately depends on the burst-delay parameters and provide explicit constructions that attain the capacity for a wide range of parameters. In particular we identify regimes where (a) avoiding interference between the parity checks of the two users is optimal (b) the weaker user treats parity checks of the stronger user as side information to decode part of the source stream and (c) the capacity is achieved by a single user code. Our results shed new insights into the role of delay on user ordering in broadcast channels.
Published in: 2010 48th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (Allerton)
Date of Conference: 29 September 2010 - 01 October 2010
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 04 February 2011
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