Robust Video Transmission over Lossy Network by Exploiting H.264/AVC Data Partitioning

Xing-Jun Zhang; Xiao-Hong Peng; Richard Haywood; Tim Porter

5th International ICST Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems

Research Article

Robust Video Transmission over Lossy Network by Exploiting H.264/AVC Data Partitioning

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/BROADNETS.2008.4769093,
    author={Xing-Jun Zhang and Xiao-Hong Peng and Richard Haywood and Tim Porter},
    title={Robust Video Transmission over Lossy Network by Exploiting H.264/AVC Data Partitioning},
    proceedings={5th International ICST Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems},
    proceedings_a={BROADNETS},
    year={2009},
    month={1},
    keywords={Automatic voltage control  Error correction  Forward error correction  PSNR  Performance analysis  Propagation losses  Protection  Resilience  Robustness  Video compression},
    doi={10.1109/BROADNETS.2008.4769093}
}

Xing-Jun Zhang
Xiao-Hong Peng
Richard Haywood
Tim Porter
Year: 2009
Robust Video Transmission over Lossy Network by Exploiting H.264/AVC Data Partitioning
BROADNETS
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/BROADNETS.2008.4769093

Xing-Jun Zhang^1,2^,*, Xiao-Hong Peng¹^,*, Richard Haywood¹, Tim Porter¹

1: Electronic Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Aston University, UK
2: Department of Computer Science, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China

*Contact email: xjzhang@xjtu.edu.cn, x-h.peng@aston.ac.uk

Abstract

In this paper, a robust H.264/AVC video transmission system over lossy packet network is investigated and implemented. The H.264/AVC standard has defined a new data partition scheme which can be used to perform unequal loss protection (ULP) in video transmission systems. However, few actual implementation and experiments which integrate data partition and loss protection algorithms have been reported. Based on the H.264/AVC data partitioning mechanism, we implement three loss protection schemes using Reed-Solomon and XOR parity codes, namely equal loss protection (ELP), ULP and partition A protection only (PAP) .The performance of each scheme is evaluated under different network environments. Experimental results and performance analysis show that ELP has higher Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR) values than ULP and PAP, but PAP requires the least redundancy and offers the best tradeoffs between PSNR values and redundancy among all the three schemes.

Keywords: Automatic voltage control Error correction Forward error correction PSNR Performance analysis Propagation losses Protection Resilience Robustness Video compression

Published: 2009-01-27
Modified: 2011-08-02

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/BROADNETS.2008.4769093