Optimized Transmission of Encrypted Images over Wireless Channels

The transmission of images over wireless channels is increasing with advances in wireless communication technologies. However, ensuring secure and efficient transmission is a major challenge because intrusive receivers may be present, wireless channels have high bit error rates and limited bandwidth. This paper proposes a wireless transmission scheme for encrypted images to establish reliable and robust communications. The proposed scheme comprises on the transmitter side, encryption, compression, channel coding and modulation, and their inverse processes at the receiver. The Discrete Wavelet Transformed and the Huffman coding are employed for image compression, whereas convolutional coding is used as a technique for error correction. The system is implemented with the USRP NI-2920 modules and LabVIEW Communications 2.0 software, allowing the transmission of encrypted images both in real and simulated environments. The results show that the proposed system is robust and efficient against channel degradation.