Receiver-driven layered multicast
Conference proceedings on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Modeling TCP throughput: a simple model and its empirical validation
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM '98 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
The utility of feedback in layered multicast congestion control
NOSSDAV '01 Proceedings of the 11th international workshop on Network and operating systems support for digital audio and video
Adaptive Video Multicast over the Internet
IEEE MultiMedia
MPEG-4 Video Transfer with TCP-Friendly Rate Control
MMNS '01 Proceedings of the 4th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services: Management of Multimedia on the Internet
Impact of FEC overhead on scalable video streaming
NOSSDAV '05 Proceedings of the international workshop on Network and operating systems support for digital audio and video
International Journal of Communication Systems
A packet discard scheme for loss control in IP networks with MPEG video traffic
ICCS '02 Proceedings of the The 8th International Conference on Communication Systems - Volume 01
Framework for measurement of the intensity of motion activity of video segments
Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation
On the use of destination set grouping to improve fairness in multicast video distribution
INFOCOM'96 Proceedings of the Fifteenth annual joint conference of the IEEE computer and communications societies conference on The conference on computer communications - Volume 2
An end-to-end adaptation protocol for layered video multicast using optimal rate allocation
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
Streaming video over the Internet: approaches and directions
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
Overview of fine granularity scalability in MPEG-4 video standard
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
A framework for efficient progressive fine granularity scalable video coding
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
MPEG-7 visual motion descriptors
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
Video multicast over the Internet
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
Adaptive bitstream switching of scalable video
Image Communication
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With Progressive Fine Granularity Scalability (PFGS) video coding, one given encoding (with a prescribed bit rate) can flexibly be transmitted at any lower bit rate. However, the transmitted video is only efficiently encoded when the transmission bit rate is in the vicinity of the encoding bit rate; for transmission bit rates far from the encoding bit rate up on the order of 4 dB in video quality are lost. In this paper we develop and evaluate a suite of policies for accounting for this coding efficiency issue, which has been largely overlooked in previous PFGS streaming studies, in uni- and multicast streaming. Our adaptive policies select the PFGS encoding rate from a small number of pre-encoded versions and drop packets so as to maximize the reconstructed video qualities. Our policies consider both the visual video content, expressed using the motion activity level of MPEG-7 descriptor, as well as the channel variability. We find that an optimal non-adaptive streaming policy overcomes the 4 dB inefficiency and on top of this efficiency gain, our adaptive unicast streaming policy achieves 0.8 dB improvement over the optimal non-adaptive streaming. We also find that our content-dependent packet drop policies enforce fairness among multiple streams in terms of reconstructed video qualities and that our multicasting policy improves the average reconstructed video qualities at a group of receivers by up to 2 dB.