Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; Chapter 1. Introduction: Context; 1.1 Multimedia Wireless: The Need for New Tools; 1.2 Example Applications; 1.3 Joint Source-Channel Coding and Decoding; 1.4 Outline; Chapter 2. Why Joint Source and Channel Decoding?; 2.1 Information Theoretic Preliminaries; 2.2 To Separate or Not To Separate?; 2.3 To Code or Not To Code?; 2.4 Back to the Separation Paradigm; 2.5 Conclusion; Chapter 3. Source-Coding Primer; 3.1 Components of Source Coders; 3.2 Entropy Coding; 3.3 Quantization; 3.4 Differential Coding
3.5 Transform Coding3.6 Wavelet-Based Coding; 3.7 Packetization of Compressed Data; 3.8 Conclusion; Chapter 4. Identifying Residual Redundancy; 4.1 Stochastic Redundancy; 4.2 Deterministic Redundancy; 4.3 Comparing Various Sources of Redundancy; 4.4 Conclusion; Chapter 5. Exploiting the Residual Redundancy; 5.1 Estimators; 5.2 Element-by-Element MAP Estimation Algorithms; 5.3 Sequence Estimation Algorithms; 5.4 Example: Decoding MPEG-4 AAC Scale Factors; 5.5 Possible Extensions; Chapter 6. Toward Practical Implementations; 6.1 State Aggregation; 6.2 Projected Trellises
6.3 Grouping Code words6.4 Sequential Decoders; 6.5 Conclusion; Chapter 7. Protocol Layers; 7.1 General Architecture; 7.2 Identifying the Redundancy; 7.3 General Properties; 7.4 Conclusion; Chapter 8. Joint Protocol-Channel Decoding; 8.1 Permeable Layer Mechanism; 8.2 MAP Estimator for Robust Header Recovery; 8.3 Robust Burst Segmentation; 8.4 Computing APPs of Inputs of Block Codes; 8.5 Discussion; Chapter 9. Joint Cross-Layer Decoding; 9.1 Network and PHY Layers May Jointly Help the Application Layer; 9.2 Iterative Decoding; 9.3 Discussion
Chapter 10. Introduction to Joint Source-Channel Coding10.1 Traditional View of JSCC; 10.2 Design of Robust Entropy Codes; 10.3 Overcomplete Representations; 10.4 Conclusion; Chapter 11. Open Challenges; 11.1 Joint Source-Channel Decoding; 11.2 Joint Source-Channel Coding; 11.3 Joint Source-Channel Coding/Decoding; Appendix A. Format of 802.11 Packets; A.1 PHY Packets Format; A.2 Format of the MAC Packets Associated to the DCF Protocol; A.3 Format Of IP Packets; A.4 The Transport Layer (UDP/RTP); Bibliography; Index