This survey guides the reader through the extensive open literature that is covering the
family of low-density parity-check LDPC codes and their rateless relatives. In doing so, we …

Layered video coding creates multiple layers of unequal importance, which enables us to
progressively refine the reconstructed video quality. When the base layer (BL) is corrupted …

In this article we argue that the retail transnational corporation (TNC) is an entity that merits
urgent theoretical and empirical investigation from economic geographers. Using recent …

A novel approach to provide unequal error protection (UEP) using rateless codes over
erasure channels, named Expanding Window Fountain (EWF) codes, is developed and …

Fountain codes were introduced as an efficient and universal forward error correction (FEC)
solution for data multicast over lossy packet networks. They have recently been proposed for …

Application-layer forward error correction (FEC) is used in many multimedia communication
systems to address the problem of packet loss in lossy packet networks. One powerful form …

Future machine-to-machine (M2M) communications need to support a massive number of
devices communicating with each other with little or no human intervention. Random access …

Many current and emerging applications require low-latency communication, including
interactive voice and video communication, multiplayer gaming, multiperson …

We propose a novel random access (RA) scheme with the quality of service (QoS)
guarantees for machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. We consider a slotted …

The bitstream structure of layered media formats such as scalable video coding (SVC) or
multiview video coding (MVC) opens up new opportunities for their distribution in Mobile TV …