@article {3436,
	title = {Deploying AL-FEC Protection with Online Algorithms for Multicast Services over Cellular Networks},
	journal = {Wireless Networks, Springer Verlang},
	volume = {20},
	year = {2015},
	pages = {2109-2122},
	abstract = {<p class="rtejustify">Reliability control is a key concern on the evolution of mobile multicast services. To this direction, the use of forward error correction (FEC)\&nbsp;on the application layer is widely adopted in several mobile multicast standards. FEC is a feedback free error control method, where the transmitter\&nbsp;introduces in advance redundant information within the source data to enable receivers recovering arbitrary data erasures. On multicast delivery where\&nbsp;retransmission-based error recovery methods are not ecient, the most suitable error control method is the use of application layer forward error correction (AL-FEC) codes. In this work, we introduce novel AL-FEC deployment\&nbsp;policies over mobile multicast environments utilizing online algorithms. We\&nbsp;aim at the ecient application of AL-FEC protection with RaptorQ codes over multicast delivery in the context of competitive analysis. We provide a\&nbsp;competitiveness analysis model of AL-FEC application over mobile multicast\&nbsp;environments. Furthermore, we propose two online algorithms adjusting the introduced redundancy of AL-FEC protection according to several FEC encoding parameters and constraints of mobile multicast delivery.</p>
},
	author = {Christos Bouras and Nikos Kanakis and Vasileios Kokkinos and Andreas Papazois}
}
