Video streaming evaluation Of H.264 SVC on IEEE 802.11g wireless network

Scalable video coding (SVC) is gaining great interest because of its ability and scalability to adapt in various conditions of network. The term of scalability is referring to the removal of parts of the video bitstream in order to adapt it to the various needs or preferences of end users as well as to varying terminal capabilities or network conditions. SVC allows partial transmission and decoding of a bitstream [1]. It contains the base layer and the enhancement layers. The base layer should be transmitted with very high reliability. On the other hand, the enhancement layers might be dropped or only transmitted partially according to the available network bitrates [2, 3]. This allows very fast and accurate network adaptation to variable bit rate channel