Joint Power and Channel Resource Optimization in Soft Multi-View Video Delivery

Existing wireless multi-view video (MVV) transmission schemes use digital compression to achieve a better coding efficiency. However, the digital schemes suffer from the cliff effect, which refers to the phenomenon that the video quality is a step function of wireless channel quality. In this paper, we first consider a soft MVV transmission scheme where the correlations between the inter-view data and texture-depth data are exploited by a 5-dimensional discrete cosine transform (5D-DCT). The linearly transformed 5D-DCT signals are modulated in an analog manner so that the video quality gracefully improves when the channel quality becomes better. The cumbersome bit and rate controls in digital solutions are replaced by simple power controls. Second, as with the increase of the number of cameras and data depths, the data size of MVV increases linearly. To reduce the heavy data traffic in soft MVV transmission, we proposed efficient resource (bandwidth and power) allocation algorithms. Simulations results demonstrate that the proposed distortion-resource (DR) optimization algorithm can ensure a best viewing quality under a resource constraint and the proposed resource-distortion (RD) optimization algorithm can minimize the resource usage for a target video quality requirement. Third, the impact of power control across texture and depth frame and the impact of view positions on synthesized virtual view quality are investigated. The efficacy of the proposed algorithm on both the reference viewpoint as well as the virtual viewpoint is verified via simulations.