Compression of binary memoryless sources using punctured turbo codes

In this letter, we propose the use of punctured turbo codes to perform near-lossless compression and joint source-channel coding of binary memoryless sources. Compression is achieved by puncturing the turbo code to the desired rate. No information about the source distribution is required in the encoding process. Moreover, the source parameters do not need to be known in the decoder, since they can be estimated jointly with the iterative decoding process.