A personal communications services (PCS) system that provides access to, and interworks with, the ATM network will have the capability to support future multimedia services. PCS access to fixed ATM networks is one of the wireless access scenarios being considered by the ATM Forum for standardization. This paper provides a system level description of a PCS-to-ATM interworking scenario. It propos...

Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) introduce a new paradigm ‎of wireless broadband Internet access by providing high data ‎rate service, scalability, and self-healing abilities at reduced ‎cost. ‎Obtaining high throughput for multi-cast applications (e.g. ‎video streaming broadcast) in WMNs is challenging due to the ‎interference and the change of channel quality. To overcome ‎this issue, cross-laye...

3D wavelet video coding provides an elegant fulldimensional solution for scalable video coding. However, due to the Motion-Compensated Temporal Filtering (MCTF) with open-loop structure and no good rate distortion optimization trade-off between the texture coding and overhead coding of the corresponding mode and motion vectors within narrow bandwidth, its performance is unsatisfactory at low bi...

3D subband video coding provides an elegant fulldimensional solution for scalable video coding. However, due to the Motion-Compensated Temporal Filtering (MCTF) with open-loop structure and no good rate distortion optimization trade-off between the texture coding and overhead coding of the corresponding mode and motion vectors within narrow bandwidth, its performance is unsatisfactory at low bi...

Co-operation and network coding are two such powerful techniques that heightened the proficiency of wireless Networks. This paper mainly focuses on Physical-layer Network Coding (PNC) and Analog Network Coding (ANC), as they are the most studied variants of network coding in literature and represent radically different strategies between themselves, thus shedding light into which problems may h...

In previous work (‘Network coding meets TCP’) we proposed a new protocol that interfaces network coding with TCP by means of a coding layer between TCP and IP. Unlike the usual batch-based coding schemes, the protocol uses a TCPcompatible sliding window code in combination with new rules for acknowledging bytes to TCP that take into account the network coding operations in the lower layer. The ...

In this paper, we develop an approach toward joint source-channel coding for motion-compensated DCT-based scalable video coding and transmission. A framework for the optimal selection of the source and channel coding rates over all scalable layers is presented such that the overall distortion is minimized. The algorithm utilizes universal rate distortion characteristics which are obtained exper...

In the joint scalable video model (JSVM), selection of quantization parameters for mode decision (QPMD) and bit rate control (QPBC) is important for efficient coding performance. For quality (SNR) scalability, QPMD is adjusted only to the base layer QPBC in JSVM. Thus, it reduces coding efficiency in the enhancement layer. In this paper, we propose a new method for selecting optimum quantizatio...

In this paper, we propose a bit-depth scalable lossless coding method for high dynamic range (HDR) images based on a reversible logarithmic mapping. HDR images are generally expressed as floating-point data, such as in the OpenEXR or RGBE formats. Our bit-depth scalable coding approach outputs base layer data and enhancement layer data. It can reconstruct the low dynamic range (LDR) image from ...

A joint source-channel coding scheme for scalable video is developed in this paper. An SNR scalable video coder is used and Unequal Error Protection (UEP) is allowed for each scalable layer. Our problem is to allocate the available bit rate across scalable layers and, within each layer, between source and channel coding, while minimizing the end-to-end distortion of the received video sequence....