Overviews of path diversity and the use of multiple description video coding are given in the book chapter listed below (to appear in March 2007) and in the IEEE Communication Magazine 2004 article.
"Path Diversity and the use of Multiple Description Coding", J. Apostolopoulos, M. Trott, W. Tan, book chapter to appear in Multimedia over IP and Wireless Networks: Compression, Networking, and Systems, M. van der Schaar and P. Chou, editors, Elsevier / Academic Press, publishers, March 2007.
"End-to-End Rate-Distortion Optimized MD Mode Selection for Multiple Description Video Coding", Brian Heng, John Apostolopoulos, Jae Lim, invited paper in EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing special issue on "Video Analysis and Coding for Robust Transmission", Spring 2006.
``Source-Channel Diversity for Parallel Channels'', J.N. Laneman, E. Martinian, G.W. Wornell, J.G. Apostolopoulos, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, October 2005.
"End-to-End Rate-Distortion Optimized Mode Selection for Multiple Description Video Coding", Brian Heng, John Apostolopoulos, Jae Lim, invited paper in IEEE ICASSP, March 2005.
``Path Diversity for Enhanced Media Streaming'', J.G. Apostolopoulos, M. Trott, IEEE Communication Magazine special issue on "Proxy Support for Streaming on the Internet", 2004.
``Divert: Fine-grained Path Selection for Wireless LANs'', A. Miu, G. Tan, H. Balakrishnan, J.G. Apostolopoulos, ACM MobiSys, Boston, MA, June 2004.
``Low-latency Wireless Video over 802.11 Networks using Path Diversity'', A. Miu, J.G. Apostolopoulos, W. Tan, and M. Trott, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), July 2003.
"Performance of a Multiple Description Streaming Media Content Delivery Network", J.G. Apostolopoulos, W. Tan, and S.J. Wee, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), September 2002.
"On Multiple Description Streaming with Content Delivery Networks", J.G. Apostolopoulos, T. Wong, W. Tan, and S.J. Wee, IEEE INFOCOM, June 2002.
``Comparing Application- and Physical-Layer Approaches to Diversity on Wireless Channels'', J.N. Laneman, E. Martinian, G.W. Wornell, J.G. Apostolopoulos, and S.J. Wee, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), May 2003."Modeling Path Diversity for Multiple Description Video Communication", J.G. Apostolopoulos, W. Tan, S.J. Wee, G.W. Wornell, IEEE Inter. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 2002.
"Unbalanced Multiple Description Video Communication Using Path Diversity", J.G. Apostolopoulos and S.J. Wee, International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), October 2001."Reliable Video Communication over Lossy Packet Networks using Multiple State Encoding and Path Diversity", J.G. Apostolopoulos, Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP), pages 392-409, January 2001. If you have problems printing the above pdf, try this one.
"Error-Resilient Video Compression Through the Use of Multiple States", J.G. Apostolopoulos, International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), September 2000. This is an extension of the paper below to include improved state recovery (providing 3 dB additional gain in recovery for Bus sequence).
"Error-Resilient Video Compression Via Multiple State Streams", J.G. Apostolopoulos, Proc. International Workshop on Very Low Bitrate Video Coding (VLBV'99), pages 168-171, October 1999.
Some of these papers are also available as HP Labs Technical Reports, specifically HPL-2001-286, HPL-2001-318, HPL-2001-319, and HPL-2002-29, and if paper copies are required they may be requested directly from HP Labs Research Library.
A more comprehensive list of my, and my group's, research and publications is available at the Streaming Media Systems Group and SMSG's publications webpages.