Network-aware source coding and communication
By: Nima Sarshar ... [et al.].
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
ISBN-13: 9780521888400
Subjects: Traffic; Computer programming; Telecommunication; Data processing
Description: "An introduction to the theory and techniques for achieving high quality network communication with the best possible bandwidth economy, this book focuses on network information flow with fidelity. Covering both lossless and lossy source reconstruction, it is illustrated throughout with real-world applications, including sensor networks and multimedia communications. Practical algorithms are presented, developing novel techniques for tackling design problems in joint network-source coding via collaborative multiple description coding, progressive coding, diversity routing and network coding. With systematic introductions to the basic theories of distributed source coding, network coding and multiple description coding, this is an ideal self-contained resource for researchers and students in information theory and network theory"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; Part I. The Lossless Scenario: 2. Lossless multicast with a single source; 3. Lossless multicast of multiple uncorrelated sources; 4. Lossless multicast of multiple correlated sources; Part II. The Lossy Scenario: 5. Lossy source communication: an approach based on multiple-description codes; 6. Solving the rainbow network flow problem; 7. Continuous rainbow network flow: rainbow network flow with unbounded delay; 8. Practical methods for MDC design; 9. Using progressive codes for lossy source communication; 10. Lossy communication of multiple correlated sources.