A model for MPEG with forward error correction and TCP-friendly bandwidth

@inproceedings{Wu2003AMF,
  title={A model for MPEG with forward error correction and TCP-friendly bandwidth},
  author={Huahui Wu and Mark Claypool and Robert E. Kinicki},
  booktitle={International Workshop on Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video},
  year={2003}
}
The growing requirement of TCP-Friendly bandwidth use by streaming video plus the proven advantages of Forward Error Correction (FEC) to combat packet loss presents the opportunity to optimize the amount of FEC in a TCP-Friendly video stream. In this paper, we derive an analytical model for predicting the playable frame rate in a TCP-Friendly MPEG stream with FEC. Our model characterizes the Group Of Pictures (GOP) and Forward Error Correction (FEC) that are part of the MPEG video transmission… 
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