MPEG-4 video transport over the Internet: a summary

With the success of the Internet and flexibility of MPEG-4, transporting MPEG-4 video over the Internet is expected to be an important component of many multimedia applications in the near future. Video applications typically have delay and loss requirements, which cannot be adequately supported by the current Internet. Thus, it is a challenging problem to design an efficient MPEG-4 video delivery system that can maximize the perceptual quality while achieving high resource utilization. This paper addresses this problem by presenting an end-to-end architecture for transporting MPEG-4 video over the Internet. The proposed MPEG-4 video transport architecture ties together a range of technologies from both signal processing and networking areas. The paper provides important experience and insights on how to harness the power of these technologies in designing protocols and mechanisms for MPEG-4 video transport over the Internet.