An Efficient Joint Source-Channel Coding for Wavelet Based Scalable Video

A robust and efficient approach for scalable video transmission over wireless channels is presented. The proposed approach jointly optimizes source and channel coding in order to minimize the overall end-to-end distortion. In particular, the forward error correction method based on turbo codes is considered. Aiming at improving the overall performance of the underlying joint source-channel coding, the combination of the channel coding rate, interleaver and packet size are optimized for turbo codes subject to a constraint on the overall transmission bitrate budget. Experimental results show that the proposed approach outperforms conventional forward error correction techniques at all bit error rates, even in very adverse conditions.