Fair rate allocation of scalable multiple description video for many clients
Jacco R. Taal, Reginald L. Lagendijk · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2005
Peer-to-peer networks (P2P) form a distributed communication infrastructure that is particularly well matched to video streaming using multiple description coding. We form M descriptions using MDC-FEC building on a scalable version of the "Dirac" video coder. The M descriptions are streamed via M different application layer multicast (ALM) trees embedded in the P2P network. Client nodes (peers in the network) receive a number of descriptions m < M that is dependent on their bandwidth. In this paper we consider the optimization of the received video qualities, taking into account the distribution of the clients' bandwidth. We propose three "fairness" criteria to define the criterion to be optimized. Numerical results illustrate the effects of the different fairness criteria and client bandwidth distributions on the rates allocated to the compressed video layers and multiple descriptions.