Video coding is present in a lot of multimedia applications such as video conferencing, digital storage media, television broadcasting, and internet streaming. However, offering universal access to video content is far from trivial when taking into account the diversity of current networks and terminals. In this paper, we will discuss how MPEG-21-based technology can be combined with a recently...

Video coding is used under the hood of a lot of multimedia applications, such as video conferencing, digital storage media, television broadcasting, and internet streaming. Recently, new standards-based and proprietary technologies have emerged. An interesting problem is how to evaluate these different video coding solutions in terms of delivered quality. In this paper, a PSNR-based approach is...

The International Telecommunication Union for Radiocommunication (ITU-R) became involved with the spectrum allocation for next generation mobile communication services in World Radio Communication conference 2007 (WRC07). The reason is to minimize the adjacent channel interference between Mobile service and DVB-T system within the same geographical area. Therefore, this paper investigates the s...

Existing broadcasting schemes provide services for the stored videos. The basic approach in these schemes is to divide the video into segments and organize them over the channels for proper transmission. Some schemes use segments as a basic unit, whereas the others require segments to be further divided into subsegments. In a scheme, the number of segments/subsegments depends upon the bandwidth...

This paper demonstrates the need of and objectives for new error criteria for mobile broadcasting and the problems related to defining numerical error criteria for video services. The current error criterion used in digital video broadcasting to handheld (DVB-H), namely, multiprotocol encapsulation forward error correction (MPE-FEC) frame error ratio (MFER) 5%, was defined to enable instantaneo...

High quality digital video transmission requires efficient and reliable data communication over broadcasting channels as there is a risk of data corruption associated during transmission. The near channel performance of Low Density Parity Check Codes (LDPC) has motivated its use in second generation Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) standards for mobile, cable, satellite and terrestrial channels...

Digital Video Broadcasting Terrestrial (DVB-T) is a leading international standard established for the move from Analog to Digital Broadcasting basically via terrestrial networks. Within DVB-T, it is possible to carry defined data containers in addition to the audio and video in the MPEG-2 transport stream. This paper presents a hardware/software co-design method for the implementation of DVB-T...