Abstract
Hybrid digital–analog (HDA) transmission is beco-ming an attractive solution for mobile video delivery because it not only has graceful degradation with channel variations but also yields high power efficiency. However, the heavy bandwidth demand of analog transmission is still an unsolved problem, limiting the received video quality when the bandwidth is not sufficient. To address this problem, we propose adopting Shannon–Kotel’nikov (SK) mapping for HDA video transmission and design an HDA scheme called SK-Cast. SK-Cast consists of a digital and an analog branch. In the digital branch, SK-Cast compresses the video sequence using an high efficiency video coding digital encoder to produce a base layer. The base layer is transmitted through digital methods with strong protection. The residual signals are then decorrelated using three-dimensional discrete cosine transform transform. The SK mapping is exploited to transmit these coefficients, as they can achieve efficient bandwidth compression. We address the resource allocation problems in SK-Cast, including the allocation between digital and analog branches and the allocation among analog symbols. The simulation results show that the SK-Cast outperforms the state-of-the-art HDA systems, including WSVC and SharpCast, and a digital scalable video coding system.
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