Streaming SVC coded video over DCCP

The Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) is designed to replace the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) for media delivery. DCCP runs directly over the Internet Protocol (IP) and provides congestion control without reliability. In this paper, we investigate the methods of streaming video coded with the Scalable Video Coding (SVC) extension of H.264/AVC, over DCCP and propose a video streaming model in which the quality of the received video is maximized while both the number and the length of buffering events are minimized.