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

Table 6

Frame size, GoP size, bit rate, and quality statistics of FGS encodings using SVC FGS and MPEG-4 FGS for selected base layer quantization scales.

		Frame size			Bit rate		GoP size		Frame quality
Enc.		Mean	CoV𝑋	PtM𝑋	Mean	Peak	CoV𝑌	PtM𝑌	Mean	CoQV
mode		𝑋	𝑆𝑋𝑋	𝑋max𝑋	𝑋𝑇	𝑋max𝑇	𝑆𝑌𝑌	𝑌max𝑌	𝑄	𝑆𝑄𝑄
		[kbyte]			[Mbps]	[Mbps]			[dB]
FGS base layer
SVF24	Min	1.384	1.451	11.885	0.332	4.227	0.439	2.617	38.194	0.041
SVF24	Mean	2.213	1.784	15.742	0.531	7.831	0.663	5.416	42.675	0.086
SVF24	Max	3.595	2.163	25.351	0.863	11.221	1.002	9.497	45.627	0.111
Mp4f04	Min	1.881	0.757	7.409	0.451	5.698	0.498	3.053	38.978	0.033
Mp4f04	Mean	3.741	1.116	11.915	0.898	8.976	0.705	6.014	41.303	0.080
Mp4f04	Max	5.884	1.470	18.992	1.412	11.170	1.055	11.442	43.332	0.103
SVF38	Min	0.271	1.787	18.807	0.065	1.380	0.485	2.759	30.353	0.066
SVF38	Mean	0.421	2.118	25.571	0.101	2.413	0.635	6.843	34.276	0.092
SVF38	Max	0.644	2.488	42.057	0.155	3.389	0.936	12.368	37.266	0.116
Mp4f16	Min	0.568	1.125	11.616	0.136	1.994	0.493	2.722	31.565	0.061
Mp4f16	Mean	0.881	1.257	13.975	0.211	2.821	0.593	5.506	34.144	0.087
Mp4f16	Max	1.284	1.431	17.229	0.308	3.581	0.720	8.633	37.045	0.115
FGS enhancement layer (untruncated)
SVF24	Min	2.098	1.040	4.936	0.504	3.958	0.338	2.193	40.949	0.049
SVF24	Mean	3.230	1.320	6.905	0.775	4.847	0.422	3.079	45.829	0.072
SVF24	Max	4.641	1.572	10.007	1.114	5.635	0.578	4.557	48.452	0.088
Mp4f02	Min	2.404	0.328	1.708	0.577	1.738	0.199	1.527	44.064	0.014
Mp4f02	Mean	4.129	0.496	2.740	0.991	2.364	0.397	2.308	46.157	0.058
Mp4f02	Max	6.390	0.683	4.105	1.534	2.720	0.605	3.596	47.633	0.081
SVF28	Min	1.446	1.453	6.187	0.347	3.156	0.364	2.029	38.086	0.049
SVF28	Mean	2.089	1.591	8.804	0.501	4.062	0.440	3.179	43.481	0.077
SVF28	Max	3.381	1.788	13.013	0.811	5.020	0.615	4.903	46.279	0.096
Mp4f28	Min	12.573	0.274	1.920	3.017	7.530	0.266	1.865	42.052	0.093
Mp4f28	Mean	20.333	0.398	2.526	4.880	11.276	0.392	2.417	44.248	0.114
Mp4f28	Max	29.879	0.574	3.934	7.171	14.135	0.569	3.746	46.286	0.134
FGS aggregated (base + untruncated enhancement) traffic
SVF24	Min	3.401	1.138	7.902	0.816	6.849	0.398	2.378	40.949	0.049
SVF24	Mean	5.128	1.398	9.632	1.231	11.325	0.518	3.940	45.860	0.079
SVF24	Max	8.236	1.659	13.883	1.977	15.619	0.724	6.055	48.801	0.098
Mp4f02	Min	6.695	0.379	3.508	1.607	9.912	0.300	2.119	44.064	0.014
Mp4f02	Mean	12.929	0.645	5.883	3.103	15.836	0.527	3.857	46.157	0.058
Mp4f02	Max	21.136	0.922	8.549	5.073	21.861	0.806	6.822	47.633	0.081
SVF28	Min	2.344	1.507	9.301	0.563	5.233	0.408	2.252	38.086	0.049
SVF28	Mean	3.329	1.601	11.470	0.799	8.811	0.503	4.022	43.433	0.083
SVF28	Max	5.644	1.777	16.390	1.354	12.682	0.688	6.445	46.565	0.102
Mp4f28	Min	13.149	0.268	2.045	3.156	7.975	0.259	1.847	42.052	0.093
Mp4f28	Mean	21.008	0.390	2.591	5.042	12.081	0.383	2.363	44.248	0.114
Mp4f28	Max	30.601	0.560	3.906	7.344	15.017	0.554	3.625	46.286	0.134