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Application Layer Source-Channel Video Coding for Transmission with Smartphones over Satellite Channels

Authors:
Igor Bisio
Aldo Grattarola
Fabio Lavagetto
Giulio Luzzati
Mario Marchese

Keywords: Application layer; joint source channel coding; disaster recovery

Abstract:
Transmitting video with portable devices (such as smartphone), over heterogeneous networks with satellite portions, to a Remote Monitoring Host (RMH) represents a hot scientific and technical topic. Unfortunately, heterogeneity often implies impairments such as packet losses, due to errors and congestion, which negatively affect the video quality. To guarantee a satisfactory video fruition at the RMH, an application layer joint coding algorithm for video transmission is presented. It adaptively applies both video compression and encoding to protect the sent video stream, at the application layer, on the basis of the overall network condition estimated in terms of both maximum allowable throughput of the network and quality (packet cancellations or lossiness). A preliminarily performance study, carried out with real implementation of the algorithm, compares the joint coding against fixed schemes.

Pages: 42 to 46

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2014

Publication date: February 23, 2014

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4480

ISBN: 978-1-61208-317-9

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from February 23, 2014 to February 27, 2014