Title: Minimising delay for video conference with network coding

Authors: Hui Zhang; Jin Zhou; Jun Li

Addresses: 3-421 FIT Building, Tsinghua Universtiy, Beijing 100084, China ' 3-419 FIT Building, Tsinghua Universtiy, Beijing 100084, China ' 4-412 FIT Building, Tsinghua Universtiy, Beijing 100084, China

Abstract: Video conference is an attractive and promising application which allows immersive communication and discussion among people at different and distant places. However, its stringent delay and bandwidth requirements limit its scale and spread over current internet. This paper attempts to introduce the prosperous technology of network coding (NC) into video conference to minimise the maximal transmission delay between source and all the participants while retaining high bandwidth utilisation at the same time. Extensive numerical analysis and PlanetLab experiments demonstrate that the proposed innovative NC scheme can significantly improve the delay performance for video conference like multi-party interactive multimedia applications than conventional application level multicast.

Keywords: network coding; video conferencing; interactive multimedia; multicast; transmission delay.

DOI: 10.1504/IJICOT.2011.044677

International Journal of Information and Coding Theory, 2011 Vol.2 No.1, pp.38 - 58

Accepted: 20 Nov 2011
Published online: 29 Apr 2015 *

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