The invention relates to a video softcast method based on a channel characteristic. According to the method, subcarriers of the highest quality of a video
data allocation channel are transmitted in a
physical layer, and a decoding terminal uses a linear least square estimator (LLSE) to denoise and uses zero forcing decision feedback
equalization (ZF-DFE) to decode, so that the video
recovery quality is improved finally. The video softcast method comprises following steps that a coding terminal reads in a
video sequence and partitions images, removes intra-frame redundancy through
discrete cosine transformation (DCT), performs power distribution so as to minimize reconstruction errors, and finally generates data of the same significance through
hadamard transform; acquired data packages are sent into
orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), data of each
package is simply modulated firstly so as to form a series of symbols, subcarriers are allocated according to CSI transmitted by a feedback channel, serial-parallel conversion, inverse
fast fourier transform (IFFT),
cyclic prefix insertion and parallel-serial conversion are performed on the symbols so as to obtain
OFDM transmission symbols, and the transmission symbols are transmitted into
additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) to be sent to a receiving terminal; the process of the receiving terminal is opposite to the process of a transmitting terminal; and the decoding terminal uses the LLSE to denoise, and uses ZF-DFE to decode, and
inverse discrete cosine transformation (IDCT) is performed finally, so as to acquire the recovered video.