Research Article

Traffic and Quality Characterization of the H.264/AVC Scalable Video Coding Extension

Table 8

Traffic statistics for base, and enhancement layers, and aggregated traffic of medium grain scalability encodings using H.264 SVC for selected quantization scales.

Frame sizeBit rateGoP sizeFrame quality
Enc.Mean MeanPeak Mean CoQV
mode
[kbyte][Mbps][Mbps][dB]

Base layer

SVM28Min0.7680.9547.9580.1842.5190.5912.98137.4720.039
SVM28Mean1.7251.38315.5510.4145.3470.7907.39539.6820.083
SVM28Max2.8431.95029.8730.6826.6461.19514.52341.5190.109

SVM34Min0.3631.24811.8080.0871.5420.5673.17733.3240.054
SVM34Mean0.7461.61320.2480.1793.1840.7818.48535.8160.099
SVM34Max1.1842.08935.6310.2844.1041.16316.56237.9040.132

SVM38Min0.2231.39014.3890.0531.0730.5453.30330.6070.062
SVM38Mean0.4301.69522.2340.1032.0830.7428.80833.2160.098
SVM38Max0.6752.05136.1180.1622.6231.07316.60035.4110.147

SVM42Min0.1411.40316.7000.0340.7710.5223.23628.2290.069
SVM42Mean0.2571.70422.8810.0621.3180.6858.71630.7830.091
SVM42Max0.3982.10033.6300.0961.5960.93615.42133.0660.112

MGS enhancement layer

SVM28Min3.6530.3281.9750.8772.6160.3191.85441.6480.020
SVM28Mean6.1350.4932.9011.4723.8390.4862.73143.5890.063
SVM28Max9.8950.6994.4532.3754.6910.6924.23945.0960.091

SVM34Min2.1180.3972.1880.5081.5280.3872.11537.7150.034
SVM34Mean3.7740.5793.5310.9062.8090.5703.39539.5660.077
SVM34Max6.5130.8335.6621.5633.4200.8235.51741.2110.110

SVM38Min1.4090.4162.3830.3381.0400.4042.34834.4380.043
SVM38Mean2.6300.6183.9540.6312.1730.6073.77136.5190.075
SVM38Max4.5560.9096.5581.0932.6440.8986.30438.3530.125

SVM42Min0.9110.4262.5950.2190.7330.4122.48831.5570.051
SVM42Mean1.7350.6484.4090.4161.5950.6344.14033.7720.069
SVM42Max2.9360.9607.2820.7052.0420.9466.85835.5230.087

Aggregated (base + enhancement) traffic

SVM28Min4.4210.3963.3781.0614.7980.3411.98841.6480.020
SVM28Mean7.8600.5635.1311.8868.6550.5023.23243.5890.063
SVM28Max12.3680.7898.3082.96810.8830.7285.30345.0960.091

SVM34Min2.4820.4423.8980.5962.7030.3752.08237.7150.034
SVM34Mean4.5200.6225.8691.0855.6340.5613.54439.5660.077
SVM34Max7.5140.8829.7851.8037.0310.8245.79841.2110.110

SVM38Min1.6320.4524.0720.3922.0280.3822.26734.4380.043
SVM38Mean3.0600.6496.3430.7344.0870.5883.84836.5190.075
SVM38Max5.0970.93410.4591.2235.0710.8786.18238.3530.125

SVM42Min1.0520.4584.3260.2521.5040.3852.39831.5570.051
SVM42Mean1.9920.6706.7410.4782.8340.6074.11033.7720.069
SVM42Max3.2440.96210.7150.7793.4780.9076.48635.5230.087