ROBUST JPEG2000 IMAGE TRANSMISSION THROUGH LOW SNR MULTI-CARRIER CDMA SYSTEM IN FREQUENCY-SELECTIVE RAYLEIGH FADING CHANNELS: A PERFORMANCE STUDY

The demand for high data rate transmission is ever increasing every day. Multi-carrier code division multiple access (MC-CDMA) system is considered as the forerunner and advancement in the mobile communication system. In this paper, two types of JPEG2000 lossily-compressed test images are transmitted through an MC-CDMA channel in low SNR (as low as 4 dB) environment and their quality are evaluated objectively by using peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) and root mean square error (RMSE). The test images are all compressed from ratio of 10 : 1 up to 70 : 1 and the system involves multi-user image transmission in near real-time low SNR (+/-5 dB). It is found that JPEG2000 image compression technique that applies wavelet transform performed quite well in the low SNR multipath fading channel - as low as 4 dB, and this looks promising for future applications.