简介:ThispaperproposesanadaptivejointsourceandchannelcodingschemeforH.264videomulticastoverwirelessLANwhichtakesintoaccounttheusertopologychangesandvaryingchannelconditionsofmultipleusers,anddynamicallyallocatesavailablebandwidthbetweensourcecodingandchannelcoding,withthegoaltooptimizetheoverallsystemperformance.Inparticular,sourceresilienceanderrorcorrectionareconsideredjointlyintheschemetoachievetheoptimalperformance.Andachannelestimationalgorithmbasedontheaveragepacketlossrateandthevarianceofpacketlossrateisproposedalso.Twooverallperformancecriteriaforvideomulticastareinvestigatedandexperimentalresultsarepresentedtoshowtheimprovementobtainedbythescheme.