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On account of the wireless channel interference, transmission data tends to be erroneously decoded at the receiver. Even received with errors in some extent, the video can still be successfully recovered because of its error resilience, e.g. videos encoded with H.264/AVC. According to recent research, when a bit sequence is modulated to constellation symbols, different bit positions of symbols may have different probabilities of error occurrence. To exploit whether differential protection could be provided to different data bits of a video streaming based on this feature, our experiment implements this UEP (unequal error protection) scheme together with the data partitioning mechanism in H.264/AVC video encoding standards. The experiment results show the UEP scheme gains 5 dB of PSNR improvement in average than the EEP (equal error protection) scheme. While once massive errors occur, packets must be discarded and retransmissions are required, so additional resource consumption is unavoidable. To solve this problem, unequal loss protection (ULP) for H.264 bit stream is proposed in this paper. And we find a fact through experiments that when bandwidth resource is limited, insignificant partial data of H.264 bit stream could be discarded selectively without arousing obvious video quality degradation. Our simulation shows that when the unimportant network abstraction layer units (NALU) of H.264 bit stream are discarded, approximately 20 % of bandwidth resource is saved.
This work is partially supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under grant No. 2014ZD03-02, Huawei Research fund, National Science Foundation of China (No. 61201149 and No. 61171098), the Beijing Higher Education Young Elite Teacher Project, and the 111 Project (No. B08004).
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We’d like to express my gratitude to Dr. Chunchang Tian in Huawei Technologies Co. LTD, Beijing, for his constructive suggestions and joint work during our research on wireless video transmission optimization.
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Sun, H., Wang, Y., Liu, Y. (2016). Wireless Video Transmission Optimization Based on Error Resilience and Unequal Packet Loss. In: Liang, Q., Mu, J., Wang, W., Zhang, B. (eds) Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Communications, Signal Processing, and Systems. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 386. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49831-6_41
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