Joint on-the-fly network coding/video quality adaptation for real-time delivery

• We introduce a redundancy adaptation algorithm for real-time video transmission.
• The algorithm (A-Tetrys) is based on an on-the-fly erasure network coding scheme.
• We exploit the relationship between redundancy ratio and video quality changing.
• We compare A-Tetrys with adaptive redundancy algorithm using block-based FEC scheme.

This paper introduces a redundancy adaptation algorithm based on an on-the-fly erasure network coding scheme named Tetrys in the context of real-time video transmission. The algorithm exploits the relationship between the redundancy ratio used by Tetrys and the gain or loss in encoding bit rate from changing a video quality parameter called the Quantization Parameter (QP). Our evaluations show that with equal or less bandwidth occupation, the video protected by Tetrys with redundancy adaptation algorithm obtains a PSNR gain up to or more than 4 dB compared to the video without Tetrys protection. We demonstrate that the Tetrys redundancy adaptation algorithm performs well with the variations of both loss pattern and delay induced by the networks. We also show that Tetrys with the redundancy adaptation algorithm outperforms traditional block-based FEC codes with and without redundancy adaptation.