Receiver-driven layered multicast
Conference proceedings on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Adaptive bitstream switching of scalable video
Image Communication
Capacity gain of mixed multicast/unicast transport schemes in a TV distribution network
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
Dimensioning of a multi-rate network transporting variable bit rate TV channels
ICC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Communications
A framework for video streaming to resource-constrained terminals
EUC'05 Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing
Context-based adaptive binary arithmetic coding in the H.264/AVC video compression standard
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
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Video broadcast operators target a variety of receiving devices of different resolutions and processing capabilities. In such a heterogeneous TV network, the transport resource consumption is likely to increase. In this paper we estimate the required capacity for a broadcast TV network taking into account parameters as currently proposed in standardization bodies. We target constant video quality, hence the TV channel has variable bit rate (VBR). We consider a multicast-based transport system where only the required versions of a TV channel are transported. This leads to fluctuation of the consumed transport capacity over time. In order to characterize the fluctuations of the bit rate associated with one channel, we encoded a representative set of video clips. We compare a simulcast and a scalable video coding (SVC) transport scheme in several realistic examples with different encoding modes. We explore under what conditions one or the other transport scheme is more efficient.