MMSE Power Allocation for Image and Video Transmission over Wireless Channels

Conference: PIMRC 2005 - 16th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications
09/11/2005 - 09/14/2005 at Berlin, Germany

Proceedings: PIMRC 2005

Pages: 5Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Sediq, Akram Bin; El-Tarhuni, Mohamed (Department of Electrical Engineering, American University of Sharjah, PO Box 26666, Sharjah, UAE)

Abstract:
In this paper, a new technique for power allocation to transmitted bits according to their significance on the message quality is presented. The proposed scheme is based on optimizing the power allocation to minimize the meansquare error rather than the bit error probability of image and video signals transmitted over fading wireless channels. An analytical framework for the power allocation technique is developed. Two techniques of power allocation; fixed and adaptive, are investigated in the paper. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme provides a gain of about 3 dB in Eb / N0 in AWGN channels and about 4 dB in flat fading channels over conventional equal-power allocation system. This gain is achieved without any increase in bandwidth, as opposed to that achieved with channel coding. The gains achieved with this algorithm come at the expense of slight increase in the peak-to-average power ratio of the transmitted signal.