A Study on the Usage of Cross-Layer Power Control and Forward Error Correction for Embedded Video Transmission over Wireless Links.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Multimedia Volume 2007, Article ID 95807, 14 pages doi:10.1155/2007/95807 Research Article A Study on the Usage of Cross-Layer Power Control and Forward Error Correction for Embedded Video Transmission over Wireless Links Fabrizio Granelli,1 Cristina E. Costa,2 and Aggelos K. Katsaggelos3 1 Department of Information and Communication Technology, University of Trento, Via Sommarive 14, 38050 Povo (Trento), Italy 2 CREATE-NET International Research Center, Via Solteri 38, 38100 Trento, Italy 3 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA Received 24 December 2006; Accepted 5 May 2007 Recommended by Haohong Wang Cross-layering is a design paradigm for overcoming the limitations deriving from the ISO/OSI layering principle, thus improving the performance of communications in specific scenarios, such as wireless multimedia communications. However, most available solutions are based on empirical considerations, and do not provide a theoretical background supporting such approaches. The paper aims at providing an analytical framework for the study of single-hop video delivery over a wireless link, enabling cross-layer interactions for performance optimization using power control and FEC and providing a useful tool to determine the potential gain deriving from the employment of such design paradigm. The analysis is performed using rate-distortion information of an embedded video bitstream jointly with a Lagrangian power minimization approach. Simulation results underline that cross- layering can provide relevant improvement in specific environments and that the proposed approach is able to capitalize on the advantage deriving from its deployment. Copyright © 2007 Fab