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Rateless Codes with Progressive Recovery for Layered Multimedia Delivery

Information Theory 2017-08-16 v2 Multimedia math.IT

Abstract

This paper proposes a novel approach, based on unequal error protection, to enhance rateless codes with progressive recovery for layered multimedia delivery. With a parallel encoding structure, the proposed Progressive Rateless codes (PRC) assign unequal redundancy to each layer in accordance with their importance. Each output symbol contains information from all layers, and thus the stream layers can be recovered progressively at the expected received ratios of output symbols. Furthermore, the dependency between layers is naturally considered. The performance of the PRC is evaluated and compared with some related UEP approaches. Results show that our PRC approach provides better recovery performance with lower overhead both theoretically and numerically.

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@article{arxiv.1204.3391,
  title  = {Rateless Codes with Progressive Recovery for Layered Multimedia Delivery},
  author = {Zhao Chen and Liuguo Yin and Mai Xu and Jianhua Lu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.3391},
  year   = {2017}
}
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