[Paper] The Effect of MMT AL-FEC on QoE of Error-Concealed Video Streaming

Abstract

In this paper, we assess subjective QoE (Quality of Experience) and objective application-level QoS (Quality of Service) of video IP transmission with error concealment mechanisms of H.264/AVC and AL-FEC (Application-Level Forward Error Correction) of MMT (MPEG Media Transport), which is an application-level protocol for video transmission. The mutual effect is expected to realize more efficient video streaming from a QoE point of view. The experiment treats two contents, two types of the number of slices per picture frame, and two types of the total bitrate of video and its FEC code. We experiment with several load conditions. We then compare FEC schemes with three code rate values and no FEC scheme. We show from the assessment results that the appropriate code rate for QoE enhancement depends on not only network conditions but also contents.