Abstract: A video transmission method is provided. The video transmission method includes providing a wireless transmission environment for transmitting a video, wherein the wireless transmission environment includes an application layer, a media access control (MAC) layer and a physical layer; detecting a delay bound and a frame error rate (FER) of the video in the wireless transmission environment; detecting a present packet error rate (PER) of a packet in the physical layer when the physical layer transmits an error report to the MAC layer; calculating an estimated PER; comparing the present PER and the estimated PER for providing a determined result; and calculating an optimal video rate of the video and an optimal payload length of the packet using a geometric programming scheme when the determined result indicates that a retransmission is required, wherein the geometric programming scheme is based on the delay bound and the FER.

Abstract: A cross-layer adaptation scheme, which can be applied in a femto base station, is proposed for quality of service provisions for the scalable video streaming of high definition content in a wireless environment. Within the procedure of minimum video distortion optimization framework, the method can dynamically adopt the cross-layer parameters, which contain the video rate, payload length of a packet, the mode of modulation and coding scheme. Based on channel quality and related parameters, the proposed scheme formulates the problem of parameter selection into an optimization problem, which can be automatically solved.