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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications

H.264/SVC Video Broadcasting in IEEE 802.11 Networks with HCCA MAC and Multi-Rate PHY

Young-Hwan KIM, Jung-Bong SUK

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In this paper, we propose a novel scheme for efficient video broadcasting over WLANs using the IEEE 802.11e HCCA MAC and H.264/SVC. We rearrange the outgoing sequence of H.264/SVC NAL units according to their dimension, temporal, and quality scalability. In addition, our proposed scheme broadcasts the NAL units at various data-rates by using the link adaptation function of IEEE 802.11 PHY. Our scheme is verified using NCTUns network simulator, and is evaluated in terms of throughput, delay, and quality of experience (QoE) using structural similarity (SSIM) rather than mean square error (MSE). We employee a real video clip to increase the reliability of the simulation in which the video clip is compressed as VBR with 24 scalable layers by JSVM reference codec of the H.264/SVC. In the simulation topology, a host broadcasts the video clip to 10 wireless stations which are within 150 meters from an AP. We present performance comparisons between our proposed scheme and the scheme provided by the IEEE 802.11e HCCA standard, which is to be referred to as the simple scheme in this paper. The proposed scheme noticeably enhances in the three performance metrics. All wireless stations by the proposed scheme receive more video data than the simple scheme around 2530% within a delay bound of 1 second. The proposed scheme controls the end-to-end delay to 510% under that of the simple scheme. As for the throughput and the delay performance, the proposed scheme enhances the video quality by up to 67% compared to the simple scheme in SSIM evaluation.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E96-B No.7 pp.2024-2033
Publication Date
2013/07/01
Publicized
Online ISSN
1745-1345
DOI
10.1587/transcom.E96.B.2024
Type of Manuscript
PAPER
Category
Multimedia Systems for Communications

Authors

Young-Hwan KIM
  INRIA
Jung-Bong SUK
  Yonsei University

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