A New Wireless Image Transmission System Using Code Index Modulation and Image Enhancement for High-Rate Next Generation Networks

Abstract: With the development of wireless network technologies, the wireless image transmission area has become prominent. The need for high resolution, data traffic density, widespread use of multimedia applications, and the importance of high rate and reliable image transmission in medical and military fields necessitate the design of novel and high-performance wireless image transmission systems. This paper proposes a code index modulation (CIM)-based image transmission (CIM-IT) system that utilizes spreading code index and quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) symbol for image transmission over a wireless channel. The proposed CIM-IT system maps bits to each pixel value of the image to be transmitted and transmits these bits over a wireless channel using a single-input and multiple-output system comprising code index modulation and QAM techniques. At the receiver, the active spreading code index and the selected QAM symbol are estimated using a despreading-based maximum likelihood detector, and the corresponding bits are obtained. The image conveyed from the transmitter is then reconstructed at the receiver side using the pixel values corresponding to the bits. The obtained noisy image is enhanced using important enhancement filters. In addition, an advanced filter is proposed to improve the transmitted degraded image with optimum results. Furthermore, error performance, spectral efficiency, energy efficiency, and throughputof the CIM-IT system are performed and the results are compared with traditional wireless communication techniques.