2006 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo
Streaming of Scalable Video from Multiple Servers using Rateless Codes
Toronto, ON, Canada
July 09-July 12
ISBN: 1-4244-0366-7
Jean-paul Wagner, Ecole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne (EPFL), Signal Processing Institute - LTS4, CH-1015, Lausanne
Jacob Chakareski, Ecole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne (EPFL), Signal Processing Institute - LTS4, CH-1015, Lausanne
Pascal Frossard, Ecole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne (EPFL), Signal Processing Institute - LTS4, CH-1015, Lausanne
This paper presents a framework for efficiently streaming scalable video from multiple servers over heterogeneous network paths. We propose to use rateless codes, or Fountain codes, such that each server acts as an independent source, without the need to coordinate its sending strategy with other servers. In this case, the problem of maximizing the received video quality and minimizing the bandwidth usage, is simply reduced to a rate allocation problem. We provide an optimal solution for an ideal scenario where the loss probvability on each server-client path is exactly known. We then present a heuristic-based algorithm, which implements an unequal error protection scheme for the more realistic case of imperfect knowledge of the loss probabilities. Simulation results finally demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed algorithm, in distributed streaming scenarios over lossy channels.
Citation:
Jean-paul Wagner, Jacob Chakareski, Pascal Frossard, "Streaming of Scalable Video from Multiple Servers using Rateless Codes," icme, pp.1501-1504, 2006 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, 2006