Near-Capacity Variable-Length Coding

Recent developments such as the invention of powerful turbo-decoding and irregular designs, together with the increase in the number of potential applications to multimedia signal compression, have increased the importance of variable length coding (VLC). Providing insights into the very latest research, the authors examine the design of diverse near-capacity VLC codes in the context of wireless telecommunications.<br /> <br /> <p>The book commences with an introduction to Information Theory, followed by a discussion of Regular as well as Irregular Variable Length Coding and their... Next