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Vol. 7 No. 1 (2007)

Published: June 30, 2007

Pages: 57-64

Original Article

MPEG Video Transmission Over Error-Resilient AWGN Wireless Channel

Ghaida. A. Al-Suhail 1 Turki Y. Abdallah 1
1 Computer Engineering Department, College of Engineering, Basrah University, Basrah, IRAQ
History
  • Received: March 30, 2007
  • Available Online: June 30, 2007
DOI

https://doi.org/10.33971/bjes.7.1.6

Abstract

The goal is how to estimate video quality of MPEG TCP-Friendly video streaming over robust wireless channel against frequent packet loss. In this paper, a Forward-Error-Correction (FEC) scheme is used as an intra-protection control over an Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) wireless channel behind wired links. For this purpose, we propose Variable Frame Rate based on TCP-Friendly Rate Control (VFR-TCP) algorithm to evaluate the predicted frame rate of MPEG-4 video streaming. Quality of Service (QoS) is also evaluated by the predicted quantizer scale Q for the case that the network throughput is assumed to be equal to the required bandwidth. As a result, we obtained a good and reasonable perceived video quality over a noisy wireless channel, by varying the channel error rate or the channel SNR where AWGN and a coded BPSK scheme are dominated.

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