FEC-based video streaming over packet loss networks with pre-interleaving

Abstract

The authors present a FEC-based end-to-end error control scheme for video streaming over packet loss networks. We propose a novel robust video streaming system in which an interleaving is applied to the compressed bitstream before channel coding. The application of such preinterleaving is able to improve the performance of video streaming over packet loss networks because pre-interleaving can simultaneously satisfy different requirements arising from both channel coding and source coding. We demonstrate with simulations that the proposed approach can achieve a significant improvement for video streaming over heavy packet loss networks.