Genetic algorithm aided design of component codes for irregular variable length coding

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1290-1297

  Maunder, R G ^a   Hanzo, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Information rates; Joint source and channel coding; Trellis codes; Variable length codes

Indexed keywords

CODEBOOKS; COMPONENT CODES; DECODING COMPLEXITY; ERROR CORRECTION CAPABILITY; EXIT-CHARTS; EXTRINSIC INFORMATION TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; FREE DISTANCE; INFORMATION RATES; IRREGULAR CODES; JOINT SOURCE AND CHANNEL CODING; LOWER BOUNDS; NOVEL GENETIC ALGORITHM; VARIABLE LENGTH; VARIABLE LENGTH CODES; VARIABLE LENGTH CODING; VLEC CODES;

CHANNEL CAPACITY; CHANNEL CODING; CONTROL THEORY; CONVOLUTIONAL CODES; DECODING; ERROR CORRECTION;

TRELLIS CODES;

EID: 66849087310     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2009.05.070234     Document Type: Article

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