Error-resilient video transmission for 3-D signal over Cooperative-MIMO system

The multiple input multiple output (MIMO), cooperative communication and three dimensional (3-D) video coding are three state-of-the-art techniques. The combination between the cooperative system with MIMO is useful to provide a high data rate with a high quality of 3-D video services. By taking the advantages of these techniques, this paper presents 3-D video transmission over cooperative MIMO system. The proposed system based on a partitioning scheme, which uses adaptive allocation of Variable Length Codes (VLCs) with Unequal Error Protection (UEP) scheme for left and right views. In this scheme, video data is partitioned according to its importance into high priority (HP) and low priority (LP) coefficients. Because the video signal is usually sensitive to bit error, two methods are proposed. The first proposed technique is to interleave the Resynchronization pattern between VLCs to isolate the propagation of errors over the video stream. The second method is to improve the performance of the video decoder decision at lower values of Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR). Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed schemes.