Robust image transmission strategies for fading channels

The aim of this paper is to present a robust still-image transmission scheme and show its performance when used on a frequency flat fading channel. By following a Joint Source- Channel Coding approach, it is shown that image transmission with good visual quality is possible even with BER as high as 4%. Furthermore, this scheme only requires 26% redundancy for Error Control Coding (ECC). The ECC part can be completed by an original PDE-based restoration algorithm to further improve the visual quality of the image.

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