Image Transmission Based on QC-LDPC Codes with Simple Recursive Encoding Form

Abstract

Low encoding delay and complexity is very important for image transmission. This paper proposes a novel image transmission scheme with low encoding complexity. The proposed scheme is based on quasi-cyclic low density parity check (QC-LDPC) codes with a simple recursive encoding form (SREF QC-LDPC code) which results in low encoding complexity and delay. Constructing the SREF QC-LDPC codes in this scheme composes of two main steps, construction of the base matrix and the exponent matrix. We combine the differential evolution and protograph extrinsic information transfer (PEXIT) method to optimize the base matrix of QC-LDPC code. Consequently, the exponent matrix and the parity check matrix are constructed. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme based on SREF QC-LDPC code can provide a good tradeoff between the performance and complexity.