H.264 Wireless Video Telephony Using Iteratively-Detected Binary Self-Concatenated Coding

In this contribution we propose a robust H.264 coded wireless video transmission scheme using iteratively decoded self-concatenated convolutional coding (SECCC). The proposed SECCC scheme is composed of constituent recursive systematic convolutional (RSC) codes and an interleaver is used to randomise the extrinsic information exchanged between the constituent RSC codes. Additionally, a puncturer is used to increase the achievable bandwidth efficiency. At the receiver self-iterative decoding is invoked between the hypothetical decoder components. The performance of the system was evaluated using the H.264/AVC source codec for interactive video telephony. Furthermore, EXIT charts were utilised in order to analyse the convergence behaviour of the SECCC scheme advocated. We demonstrate the efficiency of this approach by showing that the video quality is significantly improved, when using the binary SECCC scheme. More explicitly, the proposed system exhibits an E_b/N₀ gain of 6 dB at the PSNR degradation point of 2 dB in comparison to the identical-rate benchmarker carrying out RSC coding and puncturing, while communicating over correlated Rayleigh fading channels.