A Low Complexity Progressive Bitstream Transmission System for Hybrid Channels with Correlated Loss

We propose a simple, low-complexity coding scheme for the transmission of a packetized progressive bitstream. We consider tandem channels introducing correlated bit errors and packet erasures. We show that our proposed technique transforms the hybrid channel into a channel with a single impairment for which various optimization techniques exists. Numerical results show that our proposed scheme outperforms existing solutions over the useful operating regions of the channel.