Auction based resource allocation for cooperative wireless video transmission with distributed source coding

With the recent rapid growth of communication, networking, and video compression technology, the real-time video streaming applications have evolved from traditional single-stream along simple transmitter-to-receiver path to complex multiple streams through advanced full-fledged cooperative networks. In this chapter, three major emerging advanced concepts are introduced: cooperative transmission, distributed source coding (DSC), and share auction based resource allocation. Cooperative transmission has been demonstrated as an effective transmission scheme to form virtual multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) system and provide diversity gains. Distributed source coding brings a new coding paradigm by letting the receiver jointly exploit the statistical dependencies among multiple streams sent from different sources without coding rate penalty. Share auction brings efficient way to allocate system resources in a distributed and collaborated manner to alleviate computation complexity. Based on these advanced concepts along with the advanced video processing ability for side information generation, a wireless multi-stream video transmission framework over full-fledged cooperative networks is presented.