Study of video distortion for real-time video transmission over wireless channels

Zhifeng Chen; Dapeng Wu

doi:10.1117/12.817861

27 April 2009 Study of video distortion for real-time video transmission over wireless channels

Zhifeng Chen, Dapeng Wu

Proceedings Volume 7341, Visual Information Processing XVIII; 734106 (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.817861
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2009, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Transmitting video over wireless with good quality is a challenging problem since video may get distorted by bit errors caused by fading and thermal noise. To address this problem, one can use adaptive transmission strategies, e.g., adapt the transmission power or the transmission data rate according to the channel condition. To achieve this adaptive control, we need to have the closed-form relationship between the video layer performance (the control objective) and the parameters in each layer (the control parameters). This paper is to analyze video distortion caused by fading and thermal noise, which we call "transmission distortion". The major contribution of this paper is that for the first time, we provide a method to predict how the transmission distortion process evolves over time, i.e., we obtain the analytical form of instantaneous transmission distortion as a function of system parameters in real-time video transmission over fading channels. We also obtain the analytical form of instantaneous transmission distortion under various conditions, e.g., data partitioning and the condition that one frame consists of multiple packets transmitted over the wireless channel; these results do not exist in the literature. A nice property of our prediction method is that it is not required for a receiver to acknowledge whether a packet is correctly received. Experimental results show that the transmission distortion predicted by our formula agrees well with the true distortion. The prediction formulae derived in this paper are crucial for real-time control in wireless video transmission.

Citation Download Citation

Zhifeng Chen and Dapeng Wu "Study of video distortion for real-time video transmission over wireless channels", Proc. SPIE 7341, Visual Information Processing XVIII, 734106 (27 April 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.817861

ACCESS THE FULL ARTICLE

INSTITUTIONAL
Select your institution to access the SPIE Digital Library.

SELECT YOUR INSTITUTION

PERSONAL
Sign in with your SPIE account to access your personal subscriptions or to use specific features such as save to my library, sign up for alerts, save searches, etc.

PERSONAL SIGN IN

No SPIE Account? Create one

PURCHASE THIS CONTENT

SUBSCRIBE TO DIGITAL LIBRARY

50 downloads per 1-year subscription

Members: $195

Non-members: $335 ADD TO CART

25 downloads per 1 - year subscription

Members: $145

Non-members: $250 ADD TO CART

PURCHASE SINGLE ARTICLE

Includes PDF, HTML & Video, when available

Members: $17.00

Non-members: $21.00 ADD TO CART

PROCEEDINGS
10 PAGES

DOWNLOAD PAPER SAVE TO MY LIBRARY

GET CITATION

RIGHTS & PERMISSIONS

Get copyright permission Get copyright permission on Copyright Marketplace

KEYWORDS

Distortion

Video

Error analysis

Computer programming

Video coding

Receivers

Transmitters

Show All Keywords

Keywords/Phrases

Search In:

Publication Years