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Summary: Joint Source-Channel Coding Reliability
Function for Single and Multi-Terminal
Communication Systems
Yangfan Zhong
A thesis submitted to the
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
in conformity with the requirements
for the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
May 2008
Copyright c 2008 by Yangfan Zhong
Dedicated to
my parents
Abstract
Traditionally, source coding (data compression) and channel coding (error protection) are
performed separately and sequentially, resulting in what we call a tandem (separate) coding
system. In practical implementations, however, tandem coding might involve a large delay
and a high coding/decoding complexity, since one needs to remove the redundancy in the
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