Content-aware authentication of motion JPEG2000 stream in lossy networks

—Stream authentication schemes (SAS) aim to achieve effective authentication of multicast streams over lossy networks. Almost all of the existing SASs are designed for stream data integrity protection only. In this paper, we argue that content integrity protection is more important than data integrity to human users. We present a content-aware SAS in Motion JPEG2000 streaming. In our scheme, a chunk of JPEG2000 codestreams is encapsulated into a block of packets using Multiple Description Coding (MDC). Our MDC exploits the inherent structure of Motion JPEG2000 codectreams and is used to preserve the semanteme/content of the stream over lossy networks. To achieve robust authentication, we encode digital signature and other integrity tokens with Forward Erasure Code against packet losses. The experiment result demonstrates that our proposed scheme allows for effective content authentication of Motion JPEF2000 streaming.