NAL-SIM: An Interactive Simulator for H.264/AVC Video Coding and Transmission

In this paper we present a high-level graphical simulator for video coding and transmission using the H.264/AVC standard. The main objective of the developed simulator is to build an overall video communication system model including source encoding, channel modeling and decoding in order to interactively investigate the performance of various H.264/AVC coding schemes in the face of bandwidth constraints and channel errors. The developed simulator can be employed as a useful research or educational tool for video communication systems based on the H.264/AVC video coding standard.