Joint source-channel coding of JPEG2000 image transmission over coded cooperative networks

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a real-time successively refinable image transmission framework over coded cooperative networks. An Unequal Error Protection (UEP) scheme is designed to jointly allocate bits among source coding, channel coding and cooperation to minimize the reconstructed distortion at the receiver. The proposed scheme has a low complexity and is compliant to the JPEG2000 Wireless standard (JPWL). Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.