30 research outputs found
Energy-Efficient Full Diversity Collaborative Unitary Space-Time Block Code Design via Unique Factorization of Signals
In this paper, a novel concept called a \textit{uniquely factorable
constellation pair} (UFCP) is proposed for the systematic design of a
noncoherent full diversity collaborative unitary space-time block code by
normalizing two Alamouti codes for a wireless communication system having two
transmitter antennas and a single receiver antenna. It is proved that such a
unitary UFCP code assures the unique identification of both channel
coefficients and transmitted signals in a noise-free case as well as full
diversity for the noncoherent maximum likelihood (ML) receiver in a noise case.
To further improve error performance, an optimal unitary UFCP code is designed
by appropriately and uniquely factorizing a pair of energy-efficient cross
quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) constellations to maximize the coding
gain subject to a transmission bit rate constraint. After a deep investigation
of the fractional coding gain function, a technical approach developed in this
paper to maximizing the coding gain is to carefully design an energy scale to
compress the first three largest energy points in the corner of the QAM
constellations in the denominator of the objective as well as carefully design
a constellation triple forming two UFCPs, with one collaborating with the other
two so as to make the accumulated minimum Euclidean distance along the two
transmitter antennas in the numerator of the objective as large as possible and
at the same time, to avoid as many corner points of the QAM constellations with
the largest energy as possible to achieve the minimum of the numerator. In
other words, the optimal coding gain is attained by intelligent constellations
collaboration and efficient energy compression
Error Resilient Multiple Description Compression of Vector Graphics
This research is motivated by the needs of robust streaming of vector graphics contents over the Internet, wireless and other lossy networks. We present a multiple description coding (MDC) technique for error resilient compression and transmission of 2D vector graphics contents. An object is coded into two or more so-called co-descriptors, which are transmitted in separate data packets and generally via different network routes from a server to a client. Each co-descriptor can autonomously provide an approximation of the input object, and it can collaborate with other co-descriptors, if also available at the decoder, to refine the approximation
Optimal two-description scalar quantizer design
Abstract Multiple description quantization is a signal compression technique for robust networked multimedia communication. In this paper we consider the problem of optimally quantizing a random variable into two descriptions, while each description being produced by a side quantizer of convex codecells. The optimization objective is to minimize the expected distortion given the probabilities of receiving either and both descriptions. The problem is formulated as one of shortest path in a weighted directed acyclic graph with constraints on the number and types of edges. An O(K 1 K 2 N 3 ) time algorithm for designing the optimal two-description quantizer is presented, where N is the cardinality of the source alphabet, and K 1 , K 2 are the number of codewords of the two quantizers respectively. This complexity is reduced to O(K1K2N 2 ) by exploiting the Monge property of the objective function. Furthermore, if K 1 = K 2 = K and the two descriptions are transmitted through two channels of the same statistics, then the optimal two-description quantizer design problem can be solved in O(KN 2 ) time