Title :
To code or not to code: Revisited
Author :
Kostina, Victoria ; Verdu, Sergio
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ, USA
Abstract :
We revisit the dilemma of whether one should or should not code when operating under delay constraints. In those curious cases when the source and the channel are probabilistically matched so that symbol-by-symbol coding is optimal in terms of the average distortion achieved, we show that it also achieves the dispersion of joint source-channel coding. Moreover, even in the absence of such probabilistic matching between the source and the channel, symbol-by-symbol transmission, though asymptotically suboptimal, might outperform not only separate source-channel coding but also the best known random-coding joint source-channel coding achievability bound in the finite blocklength regime.
Keywords :
block codes; pattern matching; probability; average distortion; delay constraints; finite blocklength regime; probabilistic matching; random-coding joint source-channel coding; symbol-by-symbol coding; symbol-by-symbol transmission; Channel coding; Conferences; Decoding; Dispersion; Joints; Achievability; Shannon theory; converse; finite blocklength regime; joint source-channel coding; lossy source coding; memoryless sources; rate-distortion theory;
Conference_Titel :
Information Theory Workshop (ITW), 2012 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Lausanne
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0224-1
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0222-7
DOI :
10.1109/ITW.2012.6404746