Effect of the Multiple Description Coding over a Hybrid Fixed-AdHoc Video Distribution Network
January 1, 2009·
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Patricia Acelas
Pau Arce
Juan Carlos Guerri
Abstract
Offering a real time video transmission service, using mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) and granting a specific Quality of Service (QoS) is a hard challenge. In fact, the network topology is extremely unstable and its variability causes the loss of transmitted information. However, powerful mechanisms against channel failures can be incorporated to avoid the system breakdown. In this paper, we evaluate the effect of Multiple Description Coding (MDC) technique for improving video quality in a multimedia content distribution system. The architecture proposed is a hybrid fixed and wireless ad hoc network where nodes can move freely. Due to multipoint to point nature of this system, multidescription can be combined with multipath transmission to increase its efficiency and, at last, the Quality of Experience (QoE) of the final receiver. The simulation lets us compare the quality of the video streaming paying attention to quality parameters (PSNR, packet delivery ratio, decodable frame rate and interruptions). Results show that MDC improves video quality in high mobility scenarios.
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Publication
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 176–187. Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Associate Professor
Pau Arce Vila received his Telecommunications Engineering degree in 2005, his M.S. in Communication Technologies, Systems and Networks in 2008, and his PhD in Telecommunications in 2014, all from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Spain. He is a Profesor Permanente Laboral in the Communications Department at UPV and a researcher at the Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications (iTEAM) since 2005. His research interests include multimedia QoS, adaptive video streaming (DASH), quality of experience, routing in wireless ad hoc networks, and performance evaluation of multimedia systems.
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Full Professor · Head of the group
Juan Carlos Guerri Cebollada was born in Valencia, Spain in 1969. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Telecommunication Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) in 1993 and 1997, respectively. He is a Full Professor in the Department of Communications Engineering at UPV, where he teaches at the ETSI Telecomunicación. He leads the Multimedia Communications research group (COMM) of the iTEAM (Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications). His research spans multimedia communications, adaptive video streaming (DASH), quality of experience, wireless and ad hoc networks, and the application of multimedia technologies to industry, medicine, education and communications.