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Cactus: a hybrid digital-analog wireless video communication system

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MSWiM '13: Proceedings of the 16th ACM international conference on Modeling, analysis & simulation of wireless and mobile systems

Pages 273 - 278

https://doi.org/10.1145/2507924.2507987

Published: 03 November 2013 Publication History

Abstract

This paper challenges the conventional wisdom that video redundancy should be removed as much as possible for efficient communications. We discover that, by keeping spatial redundancy at the sender and properly utilizing it at the receiver, we can build a more robust and even more efficient wireless video communication system than existing ones.

In the proposed framework, inter-frame (temporal) redundancy in video is removed at the encoder, but intra-frame (spatial) redundancy is retained. In doing so, pixel values after a transform-domain scaling are directly transmitted with amplitude modulation. At the receiver, spatial redundancy is utilized by image denoising. Note that denoising in our decoder is not a post-processing, but have to be immediately performed on channel output. We implement the video communication system called Cactus on SORA platform, and make the denoising processing real-time through GPU implementation. Cactus is evaluated in 802.11a/g WLAN environment. On average, Cactus outperforms SoftCast by 4.7 dB in video PSNR and is robust to packet losses.

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MSWiM '13: Proceedings of the 16th ACM international conference on Modeling, analysis & simulation of wireless and mobile systems

November 2013

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DOI:10.1145/2507924

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Lund University, Sweden
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Universitat Politàcnica de Catalunya, Spain
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University of Texas at Dallas, USA
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Cheng Li
Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada

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