ERROR-RESILIENT TRANSMISSION OF H.264 SVC STREAMS OVERDVB-T/H AND WIMAX CHANNELS WITH MULTIPLE DESCRIPTION CODINGTECHNIQUES

摘要

The European STREP Project SUIT involves the developmentof a multiple description scalable video codec for thetransmission of video content over DVB-T/H and WiMAXchannels. In this paper, we elaborate on the architecturaldesign choices for such a multiple description transmissionsystem, which utilizes H.264 Scalable Video Coding (SVC).We follow a phased approach focusing on the following unbalancedmultiple description coding approaches: fully redundantunbalanced multiple description coding, multipledescription coding based on redundant slices and multipledescription coding by means of embedded multiple descriptionquantisation.