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Authors: George Fankhauser, Marcel Dasen, Nathalie Weiler, Bernhard Plattner, Burkhard Stiller
Group: Communication Systems
Type: Article
Title: WaveVideo - An Integrated Approach to Adaptive Wireless Video
Year: 1999
Month: October
Pub-Key: FDWP99
Journal: ACM Monet, Special Issue on Adaptive Mobile Networking and Computing
Volume: 4
Number: 4
Abstract: Abstract: Wireless video in acceptable quality is only possible by following an end-to-end approach. WaveVideo is such an
integrated, adaptive video coding architecture designed for
heterogeneous wireless networks. It includes basic video
compression algorithms based on wavelet transformations,
an efficient channel coding, a filter architecture for receiver-
based media scaling, and error-control methods to adapt
video transmissions to the wireless environment. Using a
joint source/channel coding approach, WaveVideo offers a
high degree of error tolerance on noisy channels, still being
competitive in terms of compression.
Adaptation to channel conditions and user requirements
is implemented on three levels. The coding itself features
spatial and temporal measures to conceal transmission
errors. Additionally, the amount of introduced error-control
information is controlled by feedback. The video stream
coding, applied to multicast capable networks, can serve
different user needs efficiently at the same time by scaling
the video stream in the network according to receivers
quality requirements.
The WaveVideo architecture is unique in term of its
capability to use QoS mapping and adaptation functions
across all network nodes providing the same uniform interface.


Keywords: Video compression, wireless video, mobile
and wireless networks, error-control, QoS mapping, QoS
adaptation, media scaling, filtering, multicast.


Remarks: ACM Monet, Special Issue on Adaptive Mobile Networking and Computing, Vol. 4, No. 4, 1999
Resources: [BibTeX]

 

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