Survey on Multimedia Transmission Using Network Coding over Wireless Networks

Abstract

These days the growth of multimedia applications (e.g. VOIP, teleconferencing etc) over Wireless Networks is on its peak and will further increase with the time. The available bandwidth for Wireless Networks fails to meet the requirements which result in high packet loss of multimedia data, delay in transmission and decreases the quality of multimedia applications. So many approaches are proposed for multimedia streams over Wireless Networks to deal with packet loss and delay over time varying bandwidth. Network Coding is one of the many proposed approaches. This approach works well for transmission of multimedia traffic in a distributed lossy environment where only partial or uncertain information is available for decision making. Network Coding technique allows an intermediate node to combine the data (packets) from different input links and sends encoded data on its output links. So, by employing appropriate variant of Network Coding scheme at each intermediate node (linear combination of input data with the concept of generation) can achieve the network capacity. This paper presents the survey of various papers in which a Network Coding technique is applied on multimedia transmission over Wireless Networks.