A network-adaptive SVC Streaming Architecture

Abstract

For video streaming, we must consider terminal and network characteristics. The scalable video coding (SVC) can represent video bitstreams in different scalable layers for flexible adaptation to terminal and network characteristics. The SVC can allow for extraction of appropriate partial bitstreams to meet specific target bitrates and spatial resolutions from an SVC bitstream with several spatial, temporal and quality scalability layers. Moreover, the extraction process is fast, so it is possible to extract the partial video streams online to cope with the delivery networks with changing characteristics such as bandwidth etc. With all the advantages of SVC, we design and implement a network-adaptive SVC streaming system to extract partial SVC bitstreams to meet the required target bitrates and spatial resolutions. We present the implementation of our SVC streaming system with experimental results.