Enhancing wireless video streaming using lightweight approximate authentication

  • Authors:
  • Gábor Fehér

  • Affiliations:
  • Budapest University of Technology and Economy, Budapest, Hungary

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2nd ACM international workshop on Quality of service & security for wireless and mobile networks
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In this paper we propose a novel lightweight approximate authentication algorithm that provides efficient protection for wireless video streaming where bit errors are frequent. The benefits of the proposed algorithm over other algorithms are fast execution, due to its simplicity, and small message authentication code size. The algorithm is capable of detecting even a small number of bit errors in relatively small packets that are used in video streaming. These features have never previously been available at the same time. Another benefit of the approximate authentication is that it supports error resilient video decoding by dropping packets with too many bit errors, thus improving the perceived quality of the video stream. The performance of the algorithm is demonstrated via simulations and measurements