A METHOD FOR EFFICIENT FEEDBACK OF RECEIVING CHANNEL CONDITIONS IN ADAPTIVE VIDEO MULTICAST AND BROADCAST SYSTEMS

摘要

pSystems and methods are disclosed herein for transmitting data packets through a communication system. In one of several embodiments, a communication device in the communication system comprises a buffer configured to store a stream of data packets and forward error correction (FEC) code associated with the stream of data packets. The communication device also includes a processor configured to control the transmission of the stream of data packets and FEC code to a receiver device located downstream on the communication system. The processor is further configured to wait a predetermined period of time, after transmitting the stream of data packets and a portion of the FEC code, to determine whether or not the receiver device requests for additional FEC code./p [WO2008006014A2]