Near-Instantaneously Adaptive Multi-Set Space-Time Shift Keying for UAV-Aided Video Surveillance

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) are more suitable for surveillance systems than their traditional stationary counterparts. To meet the associated demanding video compression requirements, the H.265/High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) codec is invoked. Its scalable video coding extension is capable of...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on vehicular technology 2020-11, Vol.69 (11), p.12843-12856
Main Authors: Zhang, Yanqing, Xu, Chao, Hemadeh, Ibrahim A., El-Hajjar, Mohammed, Hanzo, Lajos
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
adaptive protection
Adaptive systems
Codec
Coding
Error correction codes
Forward error correction
index modulation
Information transfer
iterative decoding
Keying
MIMO
MIMO (control systems)
MIMO communication
Multilayer video transmission
Spacetime
Streaming media
Surveillance
Surveillance systems
Transceivers
UAV surveillance
unequal error protection
Unmanned aerial vehicles
Video compression
Video data
Video transmission
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Summary:Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) are more suitable for surveillance systems than their traditional stationary counterparts. To meet the associated demanding video compression requirements, the H.265/High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) codec is invoked. Its scalable video coding extension is capable of supporting diverse video resolutions by encoding the video clips captured into multiple layers, namely the Base Layer (BL) and several Enhancement Layers (EL). In this treatise, we propose a multi-functional Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) transceiver relying on Multi-Set Space-Time Shift Keying (MS-STSK) for UAV-aided near-instantaneously adaptive layered video streaming, which is capable of promptly varying the throughput as a function of both the estimated channel quality as well as of the UAV mobility, while maintaining near-flawless video quality. Additionally, we invoke EXtrinsic Information Transfer (EXIT) charts for characterizing our Unequal Error Protection (UEP) based video transceiver with the aid of near-capacity channel coding. Some of the perceptually less important ELs may have to be dropped during instances of low channel quality to retain the robustness of the transmitted video stream when a low-throughput MIMO configuration is activated. The simulation results show that our proposed UEP assisted adaptive system is capable of attaining the best Y-Peak SNR (PSNR) performance in comparison to both its non-adaptive and Equal Error Protection (EEP) counterparts.
ISSN:0018-9545
1939-9359
DOI:10.1109/TVT.2020.3012208