Energy-Distortion-Authentication Optimized Resource Allocation for Secure Wireless Image Streaming

Joint consideration of energy efficiency, multimedia quality and media authenticity has largely been overlooked in the studies of secure wireless multimedia streaming. In this paper, we propose an authentication - resource allocation framework for secure transmission of multimedia streaming over energy constrained wireless networks. The contributions of this research can be summarized in three aspects. Firstly, a hash chain based stream level authentication scheme compatible for JPEG2000 compression standard is proposed. Secondly, link layer energy- distortion is modeled, and the energy-distortion convex hull is efficiently identified, which significantly reduces optimization complexity. Finally, an authentication oriented resource allocation scheme is proposed based on the proposed authentication scheme and link layer energy-distortion convex hull, where the authenticated image quality is optimized according to energy budget constraints.