Transmit and Receive Diversity in MIMO Quantum Communication for High-Fidelity Video Transmission
Reliable transmission of high-quality video over wireless channels is challenged by fading and noise, which degrade visual quality and disrupt temporal continuity. To address these issues, this paper proposes a quantum communication framework that integrates quantum superposition with multi-input mu...
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| description | Reliable transmission of high-quality video over wireless channels is challenged by fading and noise, which degrade visual quality and disrupt temporal continuity. To address these issues, this paper proposes a quantum communication framework that integrates quantum superposition with multi-input multi-output (MIMO) spatial diversity techniques to enhance robustness and efficiency in dynamic video transmission. The proposed method converts compressed videos into classical bitstreams, which are then channel-encoded and quantum-encoded into qubit superposition states. These states are transmitted over a <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mn>2</mn><mo>×</mo><mn>2</mn></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> MIMO system employing varied diversity schemes to mitigate the effects of multipath fading and noise. At the receiver, a quantum decoder reconstructs the classical information, followed by channel decoding to retrieve the video data, and the source decoder reconstructs the final video. Simulation results demonstrate that the quantum MIMO system significantly outperforms equivalent-bandwidth classical MIMO frameworks across diverse signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) conditions, achieving a peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) up to 39.12 dB, structural similarity index (SSIM) up to 0.9471, and video multi-method assessment fusion (VMAF) up to 92.47, with improved error resilience across various group of picture (GOP) formats, highlighting the potential of quantum MIMO communication for enhancing the reliability and quality of video delivery in next-generation wireless networks. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-95572382671f42a68d343d71b672b80f2025-08-20T03:35:27ZengMDPI AGAlgorithms1999-48932025-07-0118743610.3390/a18070436Transmit and Receive Diversity in MIMO Quantum Communication for High-Fidelity Video TransmissionUdara Jayasinghe0Prabhath Samarathunga1Thanuj Fernando2Anil Fernando3Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1 1XQ, UKDepartment of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1 1XQ, UKDepartment of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1 1XQ, UKDepartment of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1 1XQ, UKReliable transmission of high-quality video over wireless channels is challenged by fading and noise, which degrade visual quality and disrupt temporal continuity. To address these issues, this paper proposes a quantum communication framework that integrates quantum superposition with multi-input multi-output (MIMO) spatial diversity techniques to enhance robustness and efficiency in dynamic video transmission. The proposed method converts compressed videos into classical bitstreams, which are then channel-encoded and quantum-encoded into qubit superposition states. These states are transmitted over a <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mn>2</mn><mo>×</mo><mn>2</mn></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> MIMO system employing varied diversity schemes to mitigate the effects of multipath fading and noise. At the receiver, a quantum decoder reconstructs the classical information, followed by channel decoding to retrieve the video data, and the source decoder reconstructs the final video. Simulation results demonstrate that the quantum MIMO system significantly outperforms equivalent-bandwidth classical MIMO frameworks across diverse signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) conditions, achieving a peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) up to 39.12 dB, structural similarity index (SSIM) up to 0.9471, and video multi-method assessment fusion (VMAF) up to 92.47, with improved error resilience across various group of picture (GOP) formats, highlighting the potential of quantum MIMO communication for enhancing the reliability and quality of video delivery in next-generation wireless networks.https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4893/18/7/436MIMOquantum communicationquantum superpositionreceive diversitytransmit diversity |
| spellingShingle | Udara Jayasinghe Prabhath Samarathunga Thanuj Fernando Anil Fernando Transmit and Receive Diversity in MIMO Quantum Communication for High-Fidelity Video Transmission Algorithms MIMO quantum communication quantum superposition receive diversity transmit diversity |
| title | Transmit and Receive Diversity in MIMO Quantum Communication for High-Fidelity Video Transmission |
| title_full | Transmit and Receive Diversity in MIMO Quantum Communication for High-Fidelity Video Transmission |
| title_fullStr | Transmit and Receive Diversity in MIMO Quantum Communication for High-Fidelity Video Transmission |
| title_full_unstemmed | Transmit and Receive Diversity in MIMO Quantum Communication for High-Fidelity Video Transmission |
| title_short | Transmit and Receive Diversity in MIMO Quantum Communication for High-Fidelity Video Transmission |
| title_sort | transmit and receive diversity in mimo quantum communication for high fidelity video transmission |
| topic | MIMO quantum communication quantum superposition receive diversity transmit diversity |
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