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Application-Layer FEC Scheme Configuration Optimization via Hybrid Simulated Annealing
An optimization technique based on an adapted combination of simulated
annealing (SA) and tabu search (TS) is presented. This method aims at finding
near-optimal unequal error protection (UEP) application-layer FEC code
configurations. This approach is intended to smartly protect audio and video
transmission over IP networks when hard time restrictions apply. The considered
code is a UEP version of the widely-used Pro-MPEG COP3 codes enabling the use
of several matrices of dissimilar size and thus of unequal recovery capability.
Finding the optimal configuration frequently requires the evaluation of a large
solution space. So, to fulfill the imposed constraints, SA is adapted to the
specifics of the scenario. In particular, the annealing schedule is conditioned
by the real-time restrictions. Furthermore, solution neighborhood structures
are determined by a proposed definition of distance between protection
configurations, which, jointly with TS, conditions the selection of candidate
solutions. Experimental results show a significantly improved performance of
the optimization process, which invariably fulfills imposed timing constraints,
at the expense of a very low distortion increase, when compared to using
exhaustive search. These results allow the use of UEP Pro-MPEG COP3 codes for
protecting video and audio transmission, which distinctly outperforms the
standard code in a wide range of scenarios