Mobile TV streaming over the mobile WiMAX network for high-speed rail reception

For improving the service quality of the Taiwan High-Speed Rail (THSR), a dedicated mobile WiMAX network (based on IEEE 802.16e in the current stage) is planned to be deployed along the railway of THSR. The mobile WiMAX network is not only for providing Internet access over the THSR trains, but also for delivering live entertainment contents to the passengers, such as mobile TV streaming of live programs. In this paper, we show the experiences about the design, implementation and evaluation of the mobile TV streaming service for high-speed rail reception based on AL-FEC (Application-Layer FEC). The experiment results show that AL-FEC can effectively compensate the packet losses in the high-speed reception scenario if the underlying reliability control schemes in IEEE 802.16e cannot provide error free mobile TV streaming delivery.