Channel code blocklength and rate optimization for progressive image transmission
P.G. Sherwood, Xiaodong Tian, K. Zeger · 2003
We investigate the problem of selecting blocklength and code rate for progressive image transmission, motivated by turbo coding methods where the performance improves with blocklength. The problem is to balance the tradeoff among error protection, source coding rate, and delay. We propose a general performance measure for evaluating progressive transmission and use dynamic programming to determine the channel code parameters based on the progressive performance. Performance results are provided for the evaluation of the gains over less complex methods as a function of channel error rate.