Price based joint source and channel coding for real time video applications over the Internet with flow rate management

In this paper, we first propose an adaptation scheme at each source for adjusting send rates and channel code ratios of all flows at each source by using a joint source and channel coding based approach. Sufficient conditions are derived for formulating such a challenging problem as a convex optimization problem. A simple algorithm is provided to solve this problem. We then design a simple scheduling algorithm for transmitting packets from all flows at each link by using a weighted round robin based method. The proposed adaptation scheme at each source and the scheduling algorithm at each link form a framework for real time video applications over the Internet. With the proposed framework, Internet service providers (ISPs) have incentive to increase their capacities so that the Internet is more friendly to high bandwidth consuming applications such as real time video applications over the Internet.