Lossy joint source-channel coding in the finite blocklength regime

Victoria Kostina, Sergio Verdú

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Abstract

This paper shows new tight finite-blocklength bounds for the best achievable lossy joint sour ce-channel code rate, and demonstrates that joint sour ce-channel code design brings considerable performance advantage over a separate one in the non-asymptotic regime. A joint source-channel code maps a block of k source symbols onto a length - n channel codeword, and the fidelity of reproduction at the receiver end is measured by the probability ε that the distortion exceeds a given threshold d. For memoryless sources and channels, it is demonstrated that the parameters of the best joint source-channel code must satisfy nC - kR(d) ≈ √nV + kV(d) Q -1 (ε), where C and V are the channel capacity and dispersion, respectively; R(d) and V(d) are the source rate-distortion and rate-dispersion functions; and Q is the standard Gaussian complementary cdf.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2012 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory Proceedings, ISIT 2012
Pages1553-1557
Number of pages5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Event2012 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT 2012 - Cambridge, MA, United States
Duration: Jul 1 2012Jul 6 2012

Publication series

NameIEEE International Symposium on Information Theory - Proceedings

Other

Other2012 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT 2012
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityCambridge, MA
Period7/1/127/6/12

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Information Systems
  • Modeling and Simulation
  • Applied Mathematics

Keywords

  • Achievability
  • Shannon theory
  • converse
  • finite blocklength regime
  • joint source-channel coding
  • lossy source coding
  • memoryless sources
  • rate-distortion theory

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