Resource allocation for WWAN video multicast with cooperative local repair

The current coding standard employs differential coding to reduce the coding rate. Decoding error may propagate in the following frames after a loss-unrecoverable frame. Since most of the current electronic devices are implemented with multiple interfaces, such as the 3G and WiFi, one way to solve the error propagation problem is to use cooperative strategies, which leverage on the 'uncorrelatedness' of the clients' channels (different channels may experience different channel losses). The cooperative strategies helping to repair the primary network's (base station to client) losses via the neighboring clients' packets sharing (client to client) through the second network interface and optimally allocating the modulation and coding schemes to the limited network resource can improve the clients' received quality massively. The inherent problem is how to solve the resource allocation problem with the cooperative strategies. In this paper, we jointly consider the resource allocation and the cooperative repair for the video streaming. We formulate the problem into the optimization problem, i.e. maximizing the clients' received video quality, and apply the structured network coding to further improve the overall performance. Simulation results show that the proposed approach outperforms the other competing schemes by at least 1.5dB in term of the received video quality in typical network scenarios.