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Traffic Analysis and Video Quality Evaluation of Multiple Description Coded Video Services for Fourth Generation Wireless IP Networks

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For the performance evaluation of future wireless communication systems, such as the fourth generation wireless networks, traffic traces of realistic services are needed. Multiple description coding (MDC) is gaining a lot of interest lately and is a viable solution to provide robust video services over single or multi hop wireless networks and MDC introduces more flexibility for network coding. Furthermore it has the capability to support heterogeneous terminals as they are accepted to be used in 4G wireless networks. By means of twelve well known video sequences, in different video formats, we generate the frame size traces and evaluate the multiple description coding characteristics. In addition to that we highlight the expected overhead due to the underlying RTP/UDP/IP protocol suite. As an objective quality measurement at the application layer, we investigate the video quality in dependency of lost and error-prone descriptors. This allows researcher to convert the network losses of their network models directly into video quality values. This step makes the work unique as single layer coded video streams would always need further postprocessing to retrieve the video quality.

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  1. Center for TeleInFrastructure (CTIF), Aalborg University, Niels Jernes Vej 12, DK-9220, AalborgØst, Denmark

    Frank H. P. Fitzek, Başak Can & Ramjee Prasad

  2. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Korea

    Marcos Katz

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Frank H.P. Fitzek was born in Berlin, Germany in 1971. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Technology, University of Aalborg, Denmark heading the Future Vision group. He received his diploma (Dipl.-Ing.) degree in electrical engineering from the University of Technology – Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) – Aachen, Germany, in 1997 and his Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing.) in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University Berlin, Germany in 2002. As a visiting student at the Arizona State University he conducted research in the field of video services over wireless networks. He co-founded the start-up company acticom GmbH in Berlin in 1999. In 2002 he was Adjunct Professor at the University of Ferrara, Italy giving lectures on wireless communications and conducting research on multi-hop networks. His current research interests are in the areas of 4G wireless communication, QoS support for multimedia services, access techniques, security for wireless communication, and the integration of multi hop networks in cellular systems. Dr. Fitzek serves on the Editorial Board of the IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials. He is the program chair for the International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (ACE2004) and serves in the program committee for VTC2003, VTC2004, ACE2004, and IEEE MWN2004.

Başak Can was born in Adana, Turkey in 1979. She received her M.Sc. degree in Computer Networks in 2003 from Bilkent University, Turkey and B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering in 2001 from Ege University, Turkey. In January 2004, she joined the WING group at the Institute of Electronic Systems, Aalborg University, Denmark where she is a PhD student since June 2004. Her current research interests are cooperative diversity schemes combined with multi antenna techniques.

Ramjee Prasad Currently Prof. Ramjee Prasad is Director of the Center for Teleinfrastruktur (CTIF). He has published over 500 technical papers, and authored and co-edited 15 books about Wireless Multimedia Communications (Artech House). His research interest lies in wireless networks, packet communications, multiple access protocols, access techniques and multimedia communications. He is a fellow of the IEE, a fellow of IETE, a senior member of IEEE, a member of NERG, and a member of the Danish Engineering Society (IDA).

Marcos Katz was born in Salta, Argentina in 1962. He received his BSEE from Universidad Nacional de Tucumán in 1987, MSEE and Ph.D. from University of Oulu, Finland, in 1995 and 2002, respectively. He worked as a Research Engineer at Nokia Telecommunications from 1987 to 1995 and Senior Research Engineer at Nokia Networks from 1995 to 2001, in Finland. In 2001–2002 he was a Research Scientist at Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland. Since 2003 Dr. Katz works as a Principal Engineer at Samsung Electronics, Advanced Research Lab Telecommunications R&D Center, Korea. His research interests include synchronization, multi-antenna, multiple access and networking techniques for current and 4G mobile communication systems.

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Fitzek, F.H.P., Can, B., Prasad, R. et al. Traffic Analysis and Video Quality Evaluation of Multiple Description Coded Video Services for Fourth Generation Wireless IP Networks. Wireless Pers Commun 35, 187–200 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-005-8748-4

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