Quantum communication for video transmission over error-prone channels

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Jayasinghe, Udara and Samarathunga, Prabhath and Pollwaththage, Nimesh and Ganearachchi, Yasith and Fernando, Thanuj and Fernando, Anil (2025) Quantum communication for video transmission over error-prone channels. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics. ISSN 0098-3063 (In Press)

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Abstract

Quantum communication offers transformative po-tential for media transmission by addressing the limitations of classical communication systems. To realize this potential, the study proposes a quantum communication framework for transmitting compressed videos over error-prone channels, lever-aging quantum superposition. Two channel coding schemes are analyzed: quantum error correction (three-qubit, five-qubit, and seven-qubit codes) and classical error correction (1/3 rate polar code), all operating within the same bandwidth constraints. The proposed systems are benchmarked against a classical commu-nication system using 1/3 rate polar codes. Results show that the three-qubit error correction-based quantum communication system, while simple and efficient, achieves significant perfor-mance gains over both classical error correction-based quantum and classical communication systems, with up to 41.42 dB in peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR), 0.9639 in structural similarity index measure (SSIM), and 94.4042 in video multimethod assessment fusion (VMAF). However, the five-qubit and seven-qubit systems outperform the three-qubit system, with the seven-qubit system surpassing all others in high noise environments, demonstrating its robustness across various group of pictures (GOP) formats. These findings highlight the trade-offs between simplicity and complexity, as the three-qubit system is practical and efficient, while the five-qubit and seven-qubit channel codes offer higher fidelity and resilience at the cost of increased complexity.

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Jayasinghe, Udara, Samarathunga, Prabhath, Pollwaththage, Nimesh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-4822-978X, Ganearachchi, Yasith ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8337-3739, Fernando, Thanuj and Fernando, Anil ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2158-2367;
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