1st Annual Conference on Broadband Networks

Research Article

Multiple description video multicast in wireless ad hoc networks

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/BROADNETS.2004.50,
        author={Shiwen Mao and Xiaolin Cheng and Y.Thomas Hou and Hanif D. Sherali},
        title={Multiple description video multicast in wireless ad hoc networks},
        proceedings={1st Annual Conference on Broadband Networks},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={BROADNETS},
        year={2004},
        month={12},
        keywords={},
        doi={10.1109/BROADNETS.2004.50}
    }
    
  • Shiwen Mao
    Xiaolin Cheng
    Y.Thomas Hou
    Hanif D. Sherali
    Year: 2004
    Multiple description video multicast in wireless ad hoc networks
    BROADNETS
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/BROADNETS.2004.50
Shiwen Mao1,*, Xiaolin Cheng1,*, Y.Thomas Hou1,*, Hanif D. Sherali2,*
  • 1: The Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • 2: The Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061
*Contact email: smao@vt.edu, xiaolin@vt.edu, thou@vt.edu, hanifs@vt.edu

Abstract

We consider the problem of multicasting multiple description (MD) video in wireless ad hoc networks. We follow an application-centric, cross-layer approach with the objective of minimizing video distortion. The contribution of this paper is twofold. First, we propose a practical MD video multicast scheme that uses multiple trees to achieve an improved error resilience performance. The proposed scheme also takes into account highly diverse wireless link bandwidths by using scalable coding for each description, thus further improving the overall video quality. Second, we formulate the optimized multicast routing as a combinatorial optimization problem and propose an efficient genetic algorithm (GA)-based metaheuristic solution procedure. Performance comparison with existing approaches show significant gains for a wide range of network operating conditions.