Quality of Experience in Satellite video streaming transmissions in urban vehicular environment

Abstract

In case of video streaming services via satellite towards vehicular clients, very long blockage periods due to road infrastructures, vegetation, and so on, may lead to a complete channel outage, which may result in the loss of all packets transmitted during that period, even in the presence of interleaving and FEC techniques. But if these periods are predictable, as in the presence of known routes traced by means of a GPS navigator, it may be advisable to alert the transmitter in advance, in order to counteract the incoming outage interval. We refer to this technique as Smart Mode. In the following we will detail how Smart Mode takes advantage of FEC and interleaving techniques, in order to improve the Quality of Experience and to reduce the waste of bandwidth in satellite multimedia streaming.