Video Traffic Characteristics of Modern Encoding Standards: H.264/AVC with SVC and MVC Extensions and H.265/HEVC

Figure 2

Illustration of classical B frame prediction structure used in MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 Part 2 (without reference arrows for even frames to avoid clutter) and dyadic hierarchical B frame prediction structure of H.264/AVC, H.264 SVC, and H.265/HEVC.

(a) Classical B frame prediction structure

(b) Hierarchical B frame prediction structure