Abstract
Research on scalable video coding (SVC) has been motivated by the need of transmitting video over the Internet. There have been many good research results on SVC and they are included into international standards too. This paper is an attempt to analyze the likelihood of using SVC for network video applications. From the perspective of the game theory, the conclusion is that SVC is not likely to be used in the current Internet and the future network research has to set the game rules right in order to take advantage of SVC to achieve the global optimum of network video applications.
Abstract
Research on scalable video coding (SVC) has been motivated by the need of transmitting video over the Internet. There have been many good research results on SVC and they are included into international standards too. This paper is an attempt to analyze the likelihood of using SVC for network video applications. From the perspective of the game theory, the conclusion is that SVC is not likely to be used in the current Internet and the future network research has to set the game rules right in order to take advantage of SVC to achieve the global optimum of network video applications.