Application control for fast adaptive error resilient H.264/AVC streaming over IP wireless networks

Following the joint source and channel coding paradigm, we propose in this article an application controlling strategy to allow fast adaptation of multimedia transmission to the impairments of an IP wireless network. To this purpose, a semi analytical prediction algorithm of the video stream perceived quality of service (PQoS) expressed as the end-to-end distortion (EED) is introduced, that takes into account the distortions due to the diverse treatments of compression, transmission and decoding for a group of pictures (GOP) subject to an imperfect communication channel. This algorithm allows to define the parameters providing the best perceived quality at the receiver side in terms both of compression and optionally of error correcting redundancy insertion to minimise the error impact with a GOP adaptation rate, as demonstrated by the results presented for H.264/AVC streams transmitted in various channel configurations.