Output details
13 - Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Metallurgy and Materials
University of Southampton
On the performance and complexity of irregular variable length codes for near-capacity joint source and channel coding
Significance of output:
Our development of Irregular Variable Length Coding (IrVLC) represents a game-changing advance in joint source/channel coding; this paper presents the theoretical foundations. IrVLC has widespread applicability, since it can readily replace the well-established Huffman codes that are employed by numerous standardised multimedia codecs, with the benefit of significantly reduced transmission power and/or increased transmission rate. The concepts described in this paper featured in a Wiley-IEEE-Press book (Near Capacity Variable Length Coding) and have subsequently been adopted by leading researchers in the telecommunications area at RWTH Aachen University, Germany and Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, including Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Vary.
