Hierarchical Transmission of Huffman Code Using Multi-Code/Multi-Rate DS/SS Modulation with Appropriate Power Control

Satoshi MAKIDO  Takaya YAMAZATO  Masaaki KATAYAMA  Akira OGAWA  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E81-B    No.12    pp.2283-2289
Publication Date: 1998/12/25
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Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Issue on the Latest Development of Telecommunication Research)
Category: Transmission and Modulation
Keyword: 
Huffman code,  multi-code SS,  parallel transmission,  hierarchical transmission,  

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Summary: 
For transmission of video signals, it is important that the system allows a certain degree of flexibility in bit rate as well as quality, depending upon the requirements of media and channel conditions. In this paper, we discuss the hierarchical transmission of Huffman code using multi-code/multi-rate DS/SS system to realize flexible transmission. We first discuss and show that the structure of Huffman code tree directly expresses hierarchical structure, and that parallel transmission of Huffman code can achieve hierarchical transmission. By assigning different transmission data rate to the bits in each stratum, it is possible to transmit different amount of information from each stratum. Further, we show the quality of each of the stratum can easily controlled by an appropriate power distribution to each parallel transmission branch.