Optimization of rateless coding for multimedia multicasting

Author

Cao, Yu ; Blostein, Steven D. ; Chan, Wai-Yip

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Queen´´s Univ., Kingston, ON, Canada

fYear

2010

fDate

24-26 March 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Fountain codes are a class of recently proposed efficient erasure error-control codes. However, the original design of fountain codes, despite being highly efficient for erasure channels, has very poor progressive decoding performance. The purpose of this paper is to design and optimize unequal error protection (UEP) fountain codes to maximize the throughput of multimedia communication systems while providing different levels of guaranteed QoS for heterogenous users. A random interleaved rateless code design is proposed to solve the formulated constraint optimization problem. Numerical results demonstrate the advantage of the proposed design with optimal parameters compared to existing UEP designs.

Keywords

decoding; error correction codes; multicast communication; multimedia communication; optimisation; quality of service; QoS; UEP fountain codes; constraint optimization problem; decoding performance; erasure channels; erasure error-control codes; fountain codes; multimedia multicasting; random interleaved rateless code design; rateless coding optimization; unequal error protection; Computer errors; Decoding; Delay; Design optimization; Error correction codes; Forward error correction; Multimedia communication; Quality of service; Streaming media; Throughput;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting (BMSB), 2010 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4461-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4462-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISBMSB.2010.5463163

Filename

5463163