TCP-oriented raptor coding for high-frame-rate video transmission over wireless networks

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 2231-2246

  Wu, Jiyan ^a,b   Yuen, Chau ^a   Wang, Ming ^c   Chen, Junliang ^c   Chen, Chang Wen ^d  

^a SINGAPORE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN   (Singapore)

^b Department of Research and Development   (Singapore)

^c BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^d the State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

High frame rate video; raptor codes; TCP; unequal error protection; wireless video transmission

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER SYSTEM FIREWALLS; ERROR CORRECTION; ERRORS; FORWARD ERROR CORRECTION; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; QUALITY CONTROL; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; VIDEO STREAMING; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

CONGESTION CONTROL MECHANISM; HIGH FRAME RATE; HIGH TRANSMISSION RATE; MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS; PEAK SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; RAPTOR CODES; UNEQUAL ERROR PROTECTIONS; WIRELESS VIDEO TRANSMISSION;

TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

EID: 84983414768     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2016.2577178     Document Type: Article

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