Joint Source-Channel Decoding for MPEG-4 Video Transmission over Wireless Channels

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1780-1789

  Chen, Qingyu ^a   Subbalakshmi, K P ^a  

^a Stevens Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Error resilient multimedia communication; Joint source channel coding (JSCC); Maximum a posteriori probability (MAP) decoding; MPEG 4 video over wireless channels; Reversible; Variable length codes (RVLC) decoding

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; CHANNEL CAPACITY; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DECODING; ERROR ANALYSIS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; SYNCHRONIZATION; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ERROR CORRECTION (EC); VIDEO TRANSMISSION; WIRELESS CHANNELS;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0346707372     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2003.815015     Document Type: Article

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