Method and apparatus for encoding compressible data for transmission over variable quality communication channel
US7339881B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 12, 2003 |
| Grant date | Mar 4, 2008 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 19, 2025 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L5/0044
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A multi-carrier communication system (400) groups subchannels (802) into different quality-of-signal (QoS) regions (804). An unconstrained optimization process (1200) is performed independently for the subchannels (802) of the different QoS regions (804) to allocate bit rates and power to the individual subchannels (802) so that the indicated QoS will result. Coders (504, 508, 512, 516, 1700) partition and error-correction encode source information using encoding schemes matched to the different QoS regions (804). A set (1100) of only a few directed QoS partition vectors (1102) direct the unconstrained optimization process (1200) to attempt bit-rate and power allocations on only a few promising groupings of subchannels (802) and QoS regions (804). An iterative process may take place between bit-rate and power allocation on one side and source information coding on the other for different directed QoS partition vectors (1102) to identify the best solution. A coder (1700) may use a dual allocation process (1800) to iteratively combine a rate-allocation process (1724) with a QoS-region-allocation process (1726) to specify codebooks (1720) for use by a codebook quantizer (1718).
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