Open AccessAn Efficient Transmission Scheme of MPEG2‐TS over RTP for a Hybrid DMB System
Author(s) -
Seo HyungYoon,
Bae Byungjun,
Kim JongDeok
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
etri journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.295
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 2233-7326
pISSN - 1225-6463
DOI - 10.4218/etrij.13.0112.0124
Subject(s) - computer science , transmission (telecommunications) , byte , network packet , digital multimedia broadcasting , broadcasting (networking) , computer network , scheme (mathematics) , data transmission , real time computing , telecommunications , channel (broadcasting) , computer hardware , mathematical analysis , mathematics
Hybrid digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) is a next‐generation mobile TV system that combines broadcasting and wireless communication networks and can provide various high‐quality multimedia services. However, if a system adheres to the current standard of transmitting the DMB content in the form of MPEG2‐TS through wireless networks, it results in a burden on the network due to low transmission efficiency. The reasons for the low transmission efficiency are as follows. First, due to its constant bitrate characteristic, DMB MPEG2‐TS includes a considerable amount of needless information, such as NULL packets and stuffing bytes. Second, due to the inflexibility of the Real‐time Transport Protocol (RTP) standard, one cannot fully utilize the maximum transmission unit of the network when converting MPEG2‐TS to RTP stream for transmission. This paper proposes a new transmission scheme that resolves these problems. Experiment results show that the proposed scheme improves data bitrate transmission efficiency by 8% to 36%, compared to the standard scheme, in the streaming of various real‐DMB contents.