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Standard-compatible multiple description coding (MDC) and layered coding (LC) are efficient ways to ensure erasure resilient, scalable transmission of encoded multimedia sources via RTP, allowing a gradual degradation of the application quality with increasing packet loss rate and decreasing bandwidth/throughput on the network. In this paper we review the standard-compatible framework proposed to IETF. Alternative techniques such as robust source coding and channel coding techniques (ARQ: automatic repeat request, FEC: forward error correction) are presented; their integration into the proposed framework is also discussed. The performances of MDC and LC either coupled with channel coding or not, are summarized by reference to current literature. Typical cases and examples are illustrated.
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Vitali, A.L., Borneo, A., Fumagalli, M. et al. Video over IP using standard-compatible multiple description coding: An IETF proposal. J. Zhejiang Univ. - Sci. A 7, 668–676 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1631/jzus.2006.A0668
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