UNIVERSITY PARIS–SUD 11 Joint Source-Channel Coding

MASTER SAR
SUPELEC – ENS CACHAN – UNIVERSITY PARIS–SUD 11
Research Seminar
Professor in charge: Pierre Duhamel
Scheduled volume: 12H
Reference
SAR–S3
Joint source-channel coding
Lecturers: P. DUHAMEL and M. KIEFFER
Joint Source-Channel Coding
Instructor:
Dr. Pierre Duhamel
CNRS – Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes
Phone: +33 (0)1 69 85 17 16
Fax: +33 (0)1 69 85 17 65
E–mail: [email protected]
URL: http://www.l2s.supelec.fr/perso/pduhamel
Instructor:
Dr. Michel Kieffer
Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes
Supélec – Univ. Paris Sud 11
Phone: +33 (0)1 69 85 17 32
E–mail: [email protected]
URL: http://www.l2s.supelec.fr/perso/kieffer
Time: S4 / 12H
Location: SUPELEC – Department of Telecommunications
Reception hours: After class or by setting an appointment (e-mail)
Pre–requisites: SAR B1, SAR C1, SAR-C5
Grading: Final project
Homework: Complementary bibliographical search
Abstract
Traditionally, cross-layer and joint source-channel coding were seen as incompatible with
classically structured networks but recent advances in theory changed this situation.
Joint source-channel decoding is now seen as a viable alternative to separate decoding of
source and channel codes, if the protocol layers are taken into account. A joint
source/protocol/channel approach is thus addressed in this seminar: all levels of the
protocol stack are considered, showing how the information in each layer influences the
others.
This seminar presents the tools to show how cross-layer and joint source-channel coding
and decoding are now compatible with present-day mobile and wireless networks, with a
particular application to the key area of video transmission to mobiles. Typical
applications are broadcasting, or point-to-point delivery of multimedia contents, which
are very timely in the context of the current development of mobile services such as
audio (MPEG4 AAC) or video (H263, H264) transmission using recent wireless
transmission standards (DVH-H, DVB-SH, WiMAX, LTE).
Tentative syllabus
• Introduction: Principles of a reliable reception
• Identifying redundancy
• Structuring redundancy
• Exploiting the redundancy
• Applications
• Extensions, joint-source-channel coding
• Conclusions and open issues in joint protocol-channel decoding
References
[1] DUHAMEL, P., and KIEFFER, M., Joint source-channel decoding: A cross-layer
perspective with applications in video broadcasting. Academic Press, 2009
[2] SAYOOD, K., Introduction to Data Compression, Academic Press, 2000
[3] COVER, T., and THOMAS, J., Elements of Information Theory, Wiley, 1991