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A Cross-Layer Perspective with Applications in Video Broadcasting
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By
Pierre Duhamel
Michel Kieffer
Description
- Treats joint source and channel decoding in an integrated way
- Gives a clear description of the problems in the field
together with the mathematical tools for their solution
- Contains many detailed examples useful for practical applications of
the theory to video broadcasting over mobile and wireless networks
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 book: all levels of the protocol stack are
considered, showing how the information in each layer influences the others.
This book provides 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).
This cross-disciplinary
book is ideal for graduate students, researchers, and more generally professionals working either in signal processing for communications
or in networking applications, interested in reliable multimedia transmission. This book is also of interest to people involved in cross-layer
optimization of mobile networks. Its content may provide them with other points of view on their optimization problem, enlarging the
set of tools which they could use.
Pierre Duhamel is director of research at CNRS/ LSS and has previously held
research positions at Thomson-CSF, CNET, and ENST, where he was head of the Signal and Image Processing Department. He has served as
chairman of the DSP committee and associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and Signal Processing Letters, as well
as acting as a co-chair at MMSP and ICASSP conferences. He was awarded the Grand Prix France Telecom by the French Science Academy in
2000. He is co-author of more than 80 papers in international journals, 250 conference proceedings, and 28 patents.
Michel Kieffer is an assistant professor in signal processing for communications at the Universite Paris-Sud and a researcher
at the Laboratoire des Signaux et Systemes, Gif-sur-Yvette, France. His research interests are in joint source-channel coding and decoding
techniques for the reliable transmission of multimedia contents. He serves as associate editor of Signal Processing (Elsevier). He is
co-author of more than 90 contributions to journals, conference proceedings, and book chapters.
Audience
R&D engineers in communications engineering and signal processing; applied researchers in universities
Contents
1. Introduction, context
2. Source coding primer
3. Why joint source and channel decoding?
4. Identifying residual redundancy
5. Structuring
the residual redundancy
6. Towards practical implementations
7. Applications
8. Joint cross-layer decoding
9. Introduction to joint source
and channel coding
10. Open challenges
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Hardbound, 334 pages, publication date: DEC-2009
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-374449-4
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS
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