The scalable video multicast has been employed by many standards, such as MBMS, MBS, and DVB-H.
Traditional mobile networks were initially designed for unicast services, and may waste radio network resources by transmitting the same content in multiple copies to different users.
Examples include the Multicast/Broadcast Service (MBS) over the WiMAX, the Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS) within the LTE, the Digital Video Broadcasting services (e.g., DVB-T, DVB-H) defined in European Telecommunication Standard (ETS), and the MediaFLO presented by Qualcomm.
To address this problem, scalable video multicasting (SVM) technology has been proposed.
In SVM, video is encoded into one base layer (BL) and several enhancement layers (ELs) by using Scalable Video Coding (SVC) technique.