Error concealment using joint multiple description Lloyd-max quantization and network coding

Multiple Description Coding (MDC) is a useful source coding method for concealing error in lossy networks. Network coding (NC) permits intermediate nodes within a network to apply algebraic mathematic process on independent streams in transmitter and receiver. This paper attempts to protect data and conceal errors happen in the network by joining MDC and p-cycle NC. First, input data (image) is zero padded and downsampled to four subimages. Then Wavelet and Lloyd-max quantization is applied to subimages. Later, four compressed and coded descriptions are transmitted through network and p-cycle network coding is applied to them in the network. Any lost description can be recovered exactly at the receiver part. In this method, no feedback system is needed. Results show that in the fixed bit rate, the PSNR (Peak Signal to Noise Ratio) of our reconstructed image and also subjective evaluation is better than previous work. Furthermore, proposed method has high throughput compared to another work.