A resource management framework for mobile IPTV service with scalable video coding

In this paper, we present a resource management framework for scalable transmission control, which optimizes resource allocation for scalable video coding (SVC)-based mobile IPTV service. In particular, it includes a scenario without any bandwidth constraint, in which total resource consumption for mobile IPTV service must be minimized so as to support more unicast data traffic with the remaining resource when enhanced multicast & broadcast service (E-MBS) specification is employed in Mobile WiMAX network. Our scalable transmission control problem in this scenario is to design a system in which resource consumption and utility gain are properly traded while maintaining a given level of service coverage for each layer of the scalable video-encoded stream.