The Effect of Erasure Coding on the Burstiness of Packet Loss
This work addresses the impact of packet loss burstiness on media quality for network engineers, but it is incremental as it builds on existing models.
The authors tackled the problem of how erasure coding affects the burstiness of packet loss in real-time media delivery, deriving a mathematical model that predicts the expected number of consecutive losses based on coding parameters and network loss probability.
The perceived quality of real-time media delivered over IP networks depends on both the rate and burstiness of packet loss. In this paper, we develop a new mathematical model for the residual burstiness of loss under erasure coding. We derive the expected number of consecutive losses in a burst as a function of erasure coding parameters and the network loss probability assuming a Bernoulli model for network losses.