Abstract:
A system and method for encoding digital signals (S) for transmission over a channel by allocating redundant channel encoding bits, includes at least one encoder (F';F'';SE) configured for:
subjecting the digital signals (S) to multiple description coding (MDC) to produce therefrom multiple description encoded signals (A to E), and allocating at least part of the redundant channel encoding bits to the multiple description encoded signals (A to E).
Balanced multiple description coding and unbalanced multiple description coding is used, as well as cascading techniques and unequal channel encoding.
Abstract:
A method for communicating video data on a wireless channel in a packet-switched network, that includes the steps.of operating at a wireless terminal (100) a compression (10; 204) in packets (106, 108) on the video data during a video coding operation, detecting wireless channel conditions and adapting control parameters of the video coding operation to the detected wireless channel conditions. The compression operation is a robust header compression operation (204) and the step of adapting control parameters of said video coding operation is performed in dependence of information (200, 210, 110) about the wireless channel conditions detected on a feedback channel made available in a decompression step (202) associated to the compression operation (204). Preferred application in mobile phones and video over IP applications.