7. Conclusion
As a result of the rapid increase in the popularity of wireless devices, such as smartphones and tablets, and video streaming over Internet, wireless video multicasting is becoming an important application. However, the diversity of users’ channel conditions is a challenge to video multicasting to multiple receivers. Multi-resolution video coding, in which a video is divided into a set of base layer and enhancement layers, is an efficient method to address this challenge. In the previous works, it has been shown that a triangular network coding scheme can increase the quality of the received videos by the users. In this work, we propose a two-dimensional network coding method to further increase the users’ experience. In our coding scheme, we combine both temporal and spatio layers together, and we introduce a search algorithm to find the optimal distribution of the transmissions to different coded layers. Through simulations results, we show the effectiveness of our two-dimensional coding scheme, as compared to the one-dimensional network coding scheme. Our future work is to analyze the effect of spatio and temporal layers on the video quality, and to find a mechanism to select the appropriate coding strategy based on the characteristics of the videos.