Sailing good radiowaves and transmitting important bits: Relay cooperation in wireless video transmission

Nicholas Mastronarde, Mihaela Van Der Schaar, Anna Scaglione, Francesco Verde, Donatella Darsena

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Abstract

Recently, much progress has been made on the cross-layer optimization of video streams in multiple access networks. The key idea is to use the granular data structure of compressed video to trade quality with bits, and optimally prioritize transmissions given the available bandwidth, in order to obtain proportionally optimal video quality across video streams. Herein, we discuss the effect and potential benefit of using a cooperative-relay strategy in a wireless network, where proportionally optimal video schedules are computed via a multi-user Markov decision process. The idea is that feeble signals of nodes that are located far away from the destination can be enhanced via the cooperation of intermediate nodes, acting as cooperative relays. Our contribution is to indicate a possible solution that would require relatively modest changes to the multi-user optimization framework, while warranting a uniformly better experience to the video users thanks to cooperative coding.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2010 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2010 - Proceedings
Pages5566-5569
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 8 2010
Externally publishedYes
Event2010 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2010 - Dallas, TX, United States
Duration: Mar 14 2010Mar 19 2010

Publication series

NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
ISSN (Print)1520-6149

Other

Other2010 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2010
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityDallas, TX
Period3/14/103/19/10

Keywords

  • Cooperative communication
  • Multiple access
  • Optimization
  • Wireless video transmission

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Signal Processing
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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