A hierarchical unequal packet loss protection scheme for robust H.264/AVC transmission

Xingjun Zhang; Xiaohong Peng; Dajun Wu; Tim Porter; Richard Haywood

doi:10.1109/CCNC.2009.4784996

A hierarchical unequal packet loss protection scheme for robust H.264/AVC transmission

Xingjun Zhang^*, Xiaohong Peng, Dajun Wu, Tim Porter, Richard Haywood

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Adaptive Communications Networks Research Group

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In this paper, we are concerned with robust H.264/AVC video transmission over lossy packet networks and present a hierarchical unequal packet loss protection (HULP) scheme in a transmission system that efficiently combines erasure coding, H.264/AVC error resilience techniques and importance measures in video coding schemes. The importance of the video stream packets is distinguished by three criteria: the frame sequence number in a group of pictures (GOP), the per-frame bitrate and the H.264/AVC data partition type. Using a fixed amount of redundancy, more important packets of a video stream are protected with a more powerful erasure code than the less important packets. We demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach by system implementation and performance evaluation. In the presence of packet loss, we show that the received video quality, as measured by PSNR, is significantly improved when the HULP scheme is used. More importantly, in our experiments, HULP can achieve higher PSNR values and better user perceived quality, but requiring less redundancy, than equal loss protection (ELP) schemes.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2009 6th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference: "Empowering the Connected Consumer"
Publisher	IEEE
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4244-2309-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/CCNC.2009.4784996
Publication status	Published - 9 Apr 2009
Event	6th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2009: "Empowering the Connected Consumer" - Las Vegas, NV, United States Duration: 10 Jan 2009 → 13 Jan 2009

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Conference	6th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2009
Country/Territory	United States
City	Las Vegas, NV
Period	10/01/09 → 13/01/09

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Zhang, X, Peng, X, Wu, D, Porter, T & Haywood, R 2009, A hierarchical unequal packet loss protection scheme for robust H.264/AVC transmission. in 2009 6th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference: "Empowering the Connected Consumer". IEEE, 6th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2009, Las Vegas, NV, United States, 10/01/09. https://doi.org/10.1109/CCNC.2009.4784996

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