H.264/SVC Multiple Description Coded Video Transmission over MIMO System with Power Control Based Antenna Selection

Author

Radakovic, Daniela ; Ansari, Rashid ; Yao, Yingwei

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

15-18 May 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Improvements in transmitted video quality are achievable by utilizing multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems for transmission of multiple description coded (MDC) video. For a particular MDC scheme, the improvements heavily depend on the selection of the underlying MIMO system. This paper proposes using a MIMO system with power control based antenna selection. Simulations show that the proposed system significantly outperforms the existing MDC/MIMO combinations in the literature and extends the range of channel signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) values for which video of given quality can be transmitted. Quality improvements result from MIMO power control which allows transmissions over available MIMO antennas only for sufficiently high channel gains (effectively preventing transmissions that result in video packet loss) and guarantees equal channel performance in terms of the bit error rate (BER) for all the balanced descriptions of equal importance.

Keywords

MIMO communication; antennas; error statistics; power control; telecommunication control; video coding; video communication; BER; H.264/SVC multiple description coded video transmission; MIMO system; bit error rate; channel signal-to-noise ratio; multiple-input multiple-output systems; power control based antenna selection; video packet loss; MIMO; PSNR; Resource management; Static VAr compensators; Streaming media; Transmitting antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring), 2011 IEEE 73rd

Conference_Location

Yokohama

ISSN

1550-2252

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8332-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECS.2011.5956660

Filename

5956660