energy-constrained quality optimization for secure image transmission in wireless sensor networks能源安全质量优化无线传感器网络图像传输.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Multimedia Volume 2007, Article ID 25187, 9 pages doi:10.1155/2007/25187 Research Article Energy-Constrained Quality Optimization for Secure Image Transmission in Wireless Sensor Networks Wei Wang,1 Dongming Peng,1 Honggang Wang,1 Hamid Sharif,1 and Hsiao-Hwa Chen2 1 Faculty of Computer and Electronics Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Omaha, NE 68182, USA 2 Institute of Communication Engineering, National Sun Yat-Sen University, 70 Lien-hai Rd., Kaohsiung 804, Taiwan Received 1 May 2007; Accepted 22 August 2007 Recommended by Tasos Dagiuklas Resource allocation for multimedia selective encryption and energy efficient transmission has not been fully investigated in litera- ture for wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In this article, we propose a new cross-layer approach to optimize selectively encrypted image transmission quality in WSNs with strict energy constraint. A new selective image encryption approach favorable for un- equal error protection (UEP) is proposed, which reduces encryption overhead considerably by controlling the structure of image bitstreams. Also, a novel cross-layer UEP scheme based on cipher-plain-text diversity is studied. In this UEP scheme, resources are unequally and optimally allocated in the encrypted bitstream structure, including data position information and magnitude value information. Simulation studies demonstrate that the proposed approach can simultaneously achieve improved image quality and assured energy efficiency with secure transmissions over WSNs. Copyright © 2007 Wei Wang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 1.