Efficiently-mapped adaptive hierarchical QAM for reliable scalable video communication

Author

Hasan, Tanveer ; Khan, Mohd Ayyub ; Moinuddin, A.A. ; Khan, Ekram ; Ghanbari, M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Aligarh Muslim Univ., Aligarh, India

fYear

2011

fDate

16-18 Dec. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper proposes an efficiently-mapped adaptive hierarchical QAM (AHQAM) scheme for unequal error protection (UEP) of embedded video bitstream. The coded bits of each frame are hierarchically partitioned into high priority (HP) and low priority (LP) substream, using two-staged partitioning strategy. Then pairs of stream blocks, one from each substream are selected judiciously to form symbols, which are modulated using HQAM with varying modulation parameter. The proposed scheme is generic in nature and can be applied to any scalable video bitstream. Simulations are performed with 16-AHQAM for AWGN channel and it is observed that the proposed scheme offers up to 7.2 dB improvement in quality of received video as compared to 16-HQAM.

Keywords

AWGN channels; quadrature amplitude modulation; telecommunication network reliability; video communication; 16-AHQAM; AWGN channel; UEP; efficiently-mapped adaptive hierarchical QAM; low priority substream; modulation parameter; reliable scalable video communication; unequal error protection; video bitstream; Constellation diagram; Error correction codes; PSNR; Quadrature amplitude modulation; Video codecs; Wireless communication; Unequal Error Protection (UEP); error resiliency; hierarchical modulation; video coding;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

India Conference (INDICON), 2011 Annual IEEE

Conference_Location

Hyderabad

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1110-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INDCON.2011.6139439

Filename

6139439