Efficient FEC Protection of Scalable Media Streams in DVB-H

In this paper, we discuss the deployment of SVC in DVB-H. We focus on the system configuration aspects, in order to improve the receiver performance in terms of perceived video quality and resulting power consumption. We evaluate a set of different multiplexing and FEC protection strategies in a simulation environment. We show that interleaved transmission combined with carefully configured unequal error protection achieves best overall results, while still being backwards-compatible to the DVBH standard.