A combined scheme of LDPC-STBC for image transmission in asynchronous cooperative MIMO systems

This paper presents a novel coding system which can reduce the error rate and improve the image transmission performance in the asynchronous cooperative MIMO systems. We propose a combined coder of LDPC-STBC with guard intervals for Set Partitioning in Hierarchical Trees (SPIHT) coded image transmission. The linear dispersion structure is employed to accommodate the cooperative wireless communication network in the dynamic topology of structure, as well as achieving higher throughput than conventional space time codes based on orthogonal designs. The LDPC encoder without girth-4 and the STBC encoder with guard intervals are introduced respectively. The experiment results show that the combined scheme can be the good error correcting codes and achieve better BER performance in the asynchronous cooperative communication. The combined scheme can improve the quality of the reconstructed image in the PSNR values and SPIHT coded image transmission in the asynchronous cooperative MIMO systems.

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