Comprehensive protection of data-partitioned video for broadband wireless IPTV streaming

 Corresponding author: Martin Fleury, University of Essex, CSEE Dept., Wivenhoe Park, Colchester CO4 3SQ, UK. Tel.: +44 1206 872684. Fax.: +44 1206 872900. Email: [email protected] Abstract. This paper examines the threat to video streaming from slow and fast fading, traffic congestion, and channel packet drops. The proposed response is a combination of: rateless channel coding, which is adaptively applied; data-partitioned source coding to exploit prioritized packetization; and duplicate slice provision, which is the focus of the evaluation in this paper. The paper also considers the distribution of intra-refresh macroblocks as a means of avoiding sudden data rate increases. When error bursts occur, this paper shows that duplicate slices are certainly necessary but this provision is more effective for medium quality video than it is for high quality video. The percentage of intra-refresh macroblocks can be low and still reduce the impact of temporal error propagation.