Robust Multimedia Coding: Information Theory and Practical Architectures by Rohit Puri Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences University of California, Berkeley Professor Kannan Ramchandran, Chair The ever increasing proportion of multimedia content over the Internet has fueled tremendous research activity in the field of robust multimedia transmission ...

Increasing heterogeneity of networks and diversity of user capabilities have determined and sustained a strong interest in robust coding of visual content and flexible adaptation of the bitstreams to network and user conditions. As a result, several methods for robust coding and transmission have been proposed that include multiple description coding, motioncompensated subband video coding, joi...

A technique for bounding the capacities of networks of independent channels is introduced. Parts I and II treat pointto-point and multiterminal channels, respectively. Bounds are derived using a new tool called a bounding model. Channel 1 is an upper (lower) bounding model for channel 2 if replacing channel 2 by channel 1 in any network yields a new network whose capacity region is a superset (...

In this paper we propose a joint source-channel coding scheme for transmission of images over noisy channels. In this scheme, the interaction between the source coding and the channel coding is through a small number of parameters. A robust source coder based on classiication of coeecients of Discrete Wavelet Transform of the image is coupled with a exible error control scheme which uses a bank...

An integrated framework of optimal rate allocation for video coding is presented in the case of transmission over wireless channels without feedback channels. For a fixed channel bit rate and finite number of channel coding rate, the proposed scheme can find the optimal source and channel coding pair and corresponding robust video coding scheme such that the expected end-to-end distortion of vi...

In this letter, we present a fixed-length robust joint source-channel coding (RJSCC) scheme for transmitting images over wireless channels. The system integrates a joint source-channel coding (JSCC) scheme with all-pass filtering source shaping to enable robust image transmission. In particular, we are able to incorporate both transition probability and bit error rate of a bursty channel model ...

Title of dissertation: INFORMATION THEORETIC SECRET KEY GENERATION: STRUCTURED CODES AND TREE PACKING Sirin Nitinawarat, Doctor of Philosophy, 2010 Dissertation directed by: Professor Prakash Narayan Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Institute for Systems Research This dissertation deals with a multiterminal source model for secret key generation by multiple network terminals wi...

All traditional data compression techniques, such as Huffman coding, the Lempel-Ziv algorithm, run-length limited coding, Tunstall coding and arithmetic coding are highly susceptible to residual channel errors and noise. We have recently proposed the use of parallel concatenated codes and iterative decoding for fixed-length to fixed-length source coding, i.e., turbo coding for data compression ...

Nanowire-based solar cells opened a new avenue for increasing conversion efficiency and rationalizing material use by growing different III-V materials on silicon substrates. Here, we propose a multiterminal nanowire solar cell design with a theoretical conversion efficiency of 48.3% utilizing an efficient lateral spectrum splitting between three different III-V material nanowire arrays grown o...