An Unequal Coding Scheme for H.265 Video Transmission

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a new multi-level unequal error protection (UEP) by superposition transmission (referred to as ML-UEP-by-ST) coding scheme, which provides finer error protection abilities than the unequal error protection by partial superposition transmission (referred to as UEP-by-PST) coding scheme. This new coding scheme is then applied to video transmission with the H.265 standard, where a video bitstream can be regarded as a series of one or more groups. Each group consists of either a coded video sequence (CVS) and parameter sets or a CVS only. In the ML-UEP-by-ST system, each group of an H.265 video bitstream is partitioned equally into three parts, the most important part (Part A), the less important part (Part B) and the least important part (Part C). Each of these three parts is encoded by the same low-density parity check (LDPC) code as standardized in the fifth generation mobile networks(5G). The transmission is then formed by three sections. The first transmission is coded Part A, the second transmission is the superposition of coded Part B and the interleaved version of coded Part A, and the third transmission is the superposition of coded Part C and the interleaved version of the second transmission. Simulation results show that the performance of our proposed UEP scheme is better than the traditional equal error protection (EEP) scheme and the two-level UEP-by-PST scheme over both additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels and Rayleigh fading channels.