Correia, P.Assunção, P.Silva, V.2026-01-262026-01-262011-04P. Correia, P. Assuncao and V. Silva, "Enhanced H.264/AVC video streaming using network-adaptive multiple description coding," 2011 IEEE EUROCON - International Conference on Computer as a Tool, Lisbon, Portugal, 2011, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/EUROCON.2011.5929296.978-1-4244-7486-8http://hdl.handle.net/10400.8/15510This paper presents a network-adaptive multiple description coding (MDC) method for enhanced video streaming over multipath channels. The novel feature of the proposed MDC network adaptation scheme is the generation of a controlled amount of side information to compensate for drift distortion due to packet loss. This yields higher robustness of multiple description (MD) H.264/AVC streams than single description (SD) ones. Multiple Description Scalar Quantisation (MDSQ) is used to split an SD video stream in two complementary streams (two descriptions) for transmission over a multipath channel. The simulation results show that significantly better quality is achieved by using the proposed scheme instead of either SDC streams or classic SDC-MDSQ network adaptation without side information.engNetwork-adaptive Multiple Description Video CodingMultiple Description Scalar Quantisationvideo streamconference paper10.1109/eurocon.2011.5929296