Merge-and-forward: a cooperative multimedia transmissions protocol using RaptorQ codes

Muhammad Talha Gul; Amjad Ali; Deepak Kumar Singh; Umera Imtinan; Imran Raza; Syed Asad Hussain; Doug Young Suh; Jong-wook Lee

Merge-and-forward: a cooperative multimedia transmissions protocol using RaptorQ codes

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Author(s): Muhammad Talha Gul ¹ ; Amjad Ali ^{1, 2} ; Deepak Kumar Singh ¹ ; Umera Imtinan ² ; Imran Raza ² ; Syed Asad Hussain ² ; Doug Young Suh ¹ ; Jong-wook Lee ¹
- Affiliations: 1: Department of Electronics and Radio Engineering, College of Electronics and Information, Kyung Hee University, Yongin-si 446-701, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea ;
  2: Communication and Networks Research Center, Department of Computer Science, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Lahore, Pakistan
Source: Volume 10, Issue 15, 13 October 2016, p. 1884 – 1895
DOI: 10.1049/iet-com.2016.0146 , Print ISSN 1751-8628, Online ISSN 1751-8636

Received 10/02/2016, Accepted 02/08/2016, Revised 18/07/2016, Published 13/10/2016

Recently, nodes cooperation has emerged as a popular means for improving the quality of multimedia delivery over fifth-generation cellular networks. However, in the conventional relaying scheme such as amplify-and-forward (AaF), there is a higher probability of duplicate packets at the receiver node which affect the decoding probability and consequently deteriorate the quality of multimedia transmission. In this study, the authors propose a cooperative multimedia transmission protocol based on a novel merge-and-forward relaying and the best relay selection (RS) schemes. Their best RS scheme is based on two important parameters: (i) two-hop link distances and (ii) minimum block error rate value. Moreover, to combat the packet loss for enhanced and reliable video delivery, they adopt application layer forward error correction scheme which is based on the most improved and advanced version of fountain codes (i.e. RaptorQ codes). They evaluate the performance of the proposed scheme under different time-sharing scenarios between the direct and best indirect transmission links in terms of decoding failure probability, decoding overhead, peak signal-to-noise ratio, and mean opinion score. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme outperforms the conventional AaF relaying scheme.

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