Efficient Modelling of Traffic and Quality of Scalable Video Coding (SVC) Encoded Streams

In this letter, a new model for generating SVC-like traffic and estimating its quality is introduced. Comprising two independent components - i.e., the traffic generator and the quality estimator - the model can significantly speed up the development of SVC applications in various use-cases by relying on approximated properties of streams instead of real traces. The model is verified based on a set of video streams and the performance of its components is assessed.