Joint Source-Channel Decoding: A Cross-Layer Perspective with Applications in Video Broadcasting (Hardcover)

• 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 Université Paris-Sud and a researcher at the Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes, 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.

• 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

這本書以整合的方式討論聯合源和通道解碼，並提供了解決這個領域問題的數學工具的清晰描述。書中包含許多詳細的例子，對於將理論應用於移動和無線網絡上的視頻廣播非常有用。

傳統上，跨層和聯合源通道編碼被認為與傳統結構化網絡不相容，但最近的理論進展改變了這種情況。如果考慮到協議層，聯合源通道解碼現在被視為源碼和通道碼分開解碼的可行替代方案。因此，本書探討了一種聯合源/協議/通道的方法：考慮到協議堆棧的所有層次，展示了每一層的信息如何影響其他層。

本書提供了工具，展示了跨層和聯合源通道編碼和解碼如何與現今的移動和無線網絡兼容，特別應用於視頻傳輸到移動設備的關鍵領域。典型的應用包括廣播或點對點傳遞多媒體內容，這在當前移動服務的發展背景下非常及時，例如使用最新的無線傳輸標準（DVH-H、DVB-SH、WiMAX、LTE）進行音頻（MPEG4 AAC）或視頻（H263、H264）傳輸。

這本跨學科的書籍非常適合研究生、研究人員和從事信號處理和網絡應用的專業人士，對可靠的多媒體傳輸感興趣。本書也對從事移動網絡的跨層優化的人士具有興趣。它的內容可以為他們的優化問題提供其他觀點，擴大他們可以使用的工具集。

Pierre Duhamel是法國國家科學研究中心（CNRS）/ LSS的研究主任，曾在Thomson-CSF、CNET和ENST擔任研究職位，並擔任信號和圖像處理部門主任。他曾擔任DSP委員會主席和IEEE信號處理和信號處理信函的副編輯，並在MMSP和ICASSP會議上擔任聯合主席。他於2000年獲得法國科學院的法國電信大獎。他是國際期刊上80多篇論文、250篇會議論文和28項專利的合著者。

Michel Kieffer是法國巴黎南大學通信信號處理助理教授，也是法國Gif-sur-Yvette的Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes的研究員。他的研究興趣在於聯合源通道編碼和解碼技術，用於可靠傳輸多媒體內容。他擔任Signal Processing（Elsevier）的副編輯。他是國際期刊、會議論文和專書章節的合著者，共有90多篇貢獻。