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Multi-Class Source-Channel Coding

Information Theory 2016-11-17 v3 math.IT

Abstract

This paper studies an almost-lossless source-channel coding scheme in which source messages are assigned to different classes and encoded with a channel code that depends on the class index. The code performance is analyzed by means of random-coding error exponents and validated by simulation of a low-complexity implementation using existing source and channel codes. While each class code can be seen as a concatenation of a source code and a channel code, the overall performance improves on that of separate source-channel coding and approaches that of joint source-channel coding when the number of classes increases.

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@article{arxiv.1410.8714,
  title  = {Multi-Class Source-Channel Coding},
  author = {Irina E. Bocharova and Albert Guillén i Fàbregas and Boris D. Kudryashov and Alfonso Martinez and Adrià Tauste Campo and Gonzalo Vazquez-Vilar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.8714},
  year   = {2016}
}

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Published in the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

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