LT codes for video streaming in burst erasure channels: An energy analysis

The diffusion of mobile devices, that are capable to play videos, opened new challenges for video streaming applications. Since wireless communications are prone to erasures, an important goal is to research possible ways to reliably provide video content. Fountain codes are an efficient way to protect video streaming against erasures: in particular, burst erasures are the ones that can significantly reduce the quality of the transmitted video. In this work, Luby codes for burst erasure channels are investigated. Our main focus is on the design of Luby codes to make the receiver able to recover all the lost information without any retransmission. Furthermore, we analytically demonstrate that lower energy consumption is achievable by using LT codes instead of a general retransmission scheme.