Joint optimization of the redundancy of multiple-description coders for multicast

  • Authors:

  • Ermin Kozica;W. Bastiaan Kleijn

  • Affiliations:

  • ACCESS Linnaeus Center, Electrical Engineering, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden;ACCESS Linnaeus Center, Electrical Engineering, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

  • Venue:
  • ICASSP '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We consider the optimization of multicast over packet-switched communication networks with a non-zero packet-loss probability. For the system setup consisting of a number of multiple-description coders, we jointly optimize these coders. We propose an analytic solution, asymptotically optimal in the number of multiple-description coders. The analytic solution allows for fast system adaptation to changing network conditions. A locally optimal optimization algorithm that is useful when the number of multicast groups is small is derived. Simulations show that the utilization of the analytic solution incurs a low overhead on the performance when compared to the locally optimal solution, even for a small number of multiple-description coders.