Unicast, multicast and hybrid architectures for error resilient video streaming

We discuss different architectures for error resilient video streaming. The architectures exploit a resilient video coding scheme, based on out-of-band transmission of suitable redundant information, that counteracts synchronization loss between the decoder and the bitstream due to transmission errors. We investigate unicast and multicast video streaming solutions and show a power/bandwidth efficient hybrid unicast/multicast architecture. Experimental results show the decoded video quality obtained by adopting the resilient streaming architecture in the case of H.264 coding.