In today’s world, demands of digital multimedia services are growing tremendously, together with the development of new communication technologies and investigation of new transmission media. Two common problems encountered in multimedia services are unreliable transmission channels and limited resources. This dissertation investigates advanced source coding and error control techniques, and is...

This thesis treats the problem of source coding in situations where the encoded data is subject to errors. The typical scenario is a communication system, where source data such as speech or images should be transmitted from one point to another. A problem is that most communication systems introduce some sort of error in the transmission. A wireless communication link is prone to introduce ind...

In this paper we propose an adaptive Joint Source and Channel Coding (JSCC) associated with adequate modulation algorithm to provide a near channel capacity video transmission rate to achieve better system performance. In the proposed algorithm we apply MPEG-2 video coding scheme, and turbo channel coding technique as well as BPSK/QPSK for modulation method. Rates assigned to MPEG-2 source codi...

We investigate joint source channel coding for channels with intersymbol interference (ISI) where the source coder is a vector quantizer. In our previous work we used a block MAP equalizer, which takes into account the residual correlation between the VQ outputs and also provides for soft decisions to improve the performance. In this paper we propose the use of a vector channel approach and dis...

We propose an iterative design algorithm for jointly optimizing source and channel codes. The joint design combines channel-optimized vector quantization (COVQ) for the source code with rate-compatible punctured convolutional (RCPC) coding for the channel code. Our objective is to minimize the average end-to-end distortion. For a given channel SNR and transmission rate, our joint source and cha...

Until very recently, joint source channel techniques mostly focused on systems using fixed-length coding, eventhough variable-length coding (VLC) is widely used, particularly in video coding. Typically, VLC bit streams are made channel-robust through packetization and standard forward-error correction (FEC). However, when the channel conditions are fairly mild, FEC can reveal itself bandwidth-i...

We derive novel upper and lower finite length bounds of the error probability in joint source-channel coding when the source is distributed according to an ergodic Markov process and the channel is a Markovian additive channel or a Markovian conditional additive channel. We show that these bounds are tight in the moderate deviations regime and for a certain interval of rates, also in the large ...

Application of joint source-channel coding in heterogeneous multimedia environments demands general adaptive source-channel approaches suitable for a wide variety of source coding standards, channel coders, and variable channel conditions. We develop a general approach for joint source-channel matching based on parametric models for source and channel coders that capture the key characteristics...

The problem of transmitting an i.i.d Gaussian source over an i.i.d Gaussian wiretap channel with an i.i.d Gaussian side information is considered. The intended receiver is assumed to have a certain minimum SNR and the eavesdropper is assumed to have a strictly lower SNR compared to the intended receiver. The objective is minimizing the distortion of source reconstruction at the intended receive...