RaptorQ-Based Efficient Multimedia Transmission Over Cooperative Cellular Cognitive Radio Networks

Accommodating the fast-growing multimedia traffic demands at low cost is critical to ensure the future competitiveness of cellular networks. Cognitive radio (CR) emerges as a key technology to enhance radio spectrum utilization and provides an effective solution to meet critical spectrum demands for future mobile multimedia traffics. In this paper, we investigate reliable downlink video transmission in underlay cellular CR networks by means of cooperative diversity. We use RaptorQ code as the Application Layer Forward Error Correction scheme to combat packet loss arising from the primary user interference and other channel conditions such as channel fading. For implementing cooperative diversity, we select the best relay based on the ability of successful decoding using RaptorQ and the value of signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio at the destination node. Moreover, for efficient primary user channel utilization, the selected relay performs merging of the encoding coefficients before forwarding to the destination. We evaluate the performance of the proposed framework under various time sharing scenarios between the direct and best indirect transmission links in terms of decoding overhead, probability of decoding failure, and peak signal-to-noise ratio of the received videos. Numerical results show that the proposed scheme outperforms the baseline transmission scheme and conventional relaying schemes using Amplify-and-Forward and Decode-and-Forward transmission techniques.