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Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

2012

H.264/SVC

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An Improved Authentication Scheme For H.264/Svc And Its Performance Evaluation Over Non-Stationary Wireless Mobile Networks, Yifan Zhao, Swee-Won Lo, Robert H. Deng, Xuhua Ding Nov 2012

An Improved Authentication Scheme For H.264/Svc And Its Performance Evaluation Over Non-Stationary Wireless Mobile Networks, Yifan Zhao, Swee-Won Lo, Robert H. Deng, Xuhua Ding

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

In this paper, a bit stream-based authentication scheme for H.264/Scalable Video Coding (SVC) is proposed. The proposed scheme seamlessly integrates cryptographic algorithms and erasure correction codes (ECCs) to SVC video streams such that the authenticated streams are format compliant with the SVC specifications and preserve the three dimensional scalability (i. e., spatial, quality and temporal) of the original streams. We implement our scheme on a smart phone and study its performance over a realistic bursty packet-lossy wireless mobile network. Our analysis and experimental results show that the scheme achieves very high verification rates with lower communication overhead and much smaller …


No Tradeoff Between Confidentiality And Performance: An Analysis On H.264/Svc Partial Encryption, Zhuo Wei, Xuhua Ding, Robert H. Deng, Yongdong Wu Sep 2012

No Tradeoff Between Confidentiality And Performance: An Analysis On H.264/Svc Partial Encryption, Zhuo Wei, Xuhua Ding, Robert H. Deng, Yongdong Wu

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Partial encryption is often used as a tradeoff between security and performance to protect scalable video data. In this paper, we argue that although partial encryption is strong enough for access control, it is not adequate for content confidentiality protection. We conduct experiments to show that partially encrypted H.264/SVC (scalable video coding) streams leak significant content information from the enhancement layers in all three scalability dimensions. Our analysis concludes that such leakage is caused by the underlying coding techniques used in H.264/SVC, and all layers should be encrypted to protect confidential video streams.