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JOINT SOURCE-CHANNEL CODING OF DISCRETE-TIME SIGNALS WITH CONTINUOUS AMPLITUDES: 1 (Communications and Signal Processing) Illustrated Edition
Author(s): Norbert Goertz (Author)
- Publisher: Imperial College Press
- Publication Date: 21 Nov. 2007
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 208 pages
- ISBN-10: 9781860948459
- ISBN-13: 1860948456
Book Description
This book provides the first comprehensive and easy-to-read discussion of joint source-channel encoding and decoding for source signals with continuous amplitudes. It is a state-of-the-art presentation of this exciting, thriving field of research, making pioneering contributions to the new concept of source-adaptive modulation.The book starts with the basic theory and the motivation for a joint realization of source and channel coding. Specialized chapters deal with practically relevant scenarios such as iterative source-channel decoding and its optimization for a given encoder, and also improved encoder designs by channel-adaptive quantization or source-adaptive modulation.Although Information Theory is not the main topic of the book ― in fact, the concept of joint source-channel coding is contradictory to the classical system design motivated by a questionable practical interpretation of the separation theorem ― this theory still provides the ultimate performance limits for any practical system, whether it uses joint source-channel coding or not. Therefore, the theoretical limits are presented in a self-contained appendix, which is a useful reference also for those not directly interested in the main topic of this book.
