n-Channel symmetric multiple descriptions - Part II: An achievable rate-distortion region

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1377-1392

  Puri, Rohit ^a   Pradhan, S Sandeep ^b   Ramchandran, Kannan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Maximum distance separable (MDS) erasure codes; Multiple descriptions coding; Random binning; Source channel erasure codes

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; CODES (SYMBOLS); DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DECODING; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SIGNAL DISTORTION; SIGNAL ENCODING; SIGNAL RECONSTRUCTION; THEOREM PROVING;

CHANNEL SYMMETRIC MULTIPLE DESCRIPTIONS; MAXIMUM DISTANCE SEPARABLE (MDS) ERASURE CODES; MULTIPLE DESCRIPTIONS CODING PROBLEM; RANDOM BINNING; RANDOM CODING CONSTRUCTION; RECONSTRUCTION DISTORTION; SOURCE CHANNEL ERASURE CODES;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY);

EID: 17644398750     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2005.844063     Document Type: Article

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