For many people in the western world, spending time in scenic natural surroundings is a
valued counterpoint to the demands of work and home life. Whether undertaking a particular …

Abstract most attention has focused on relatively drastic land-cover Studies of land-cover
change using satellite remote sensing are conversion with the equally important …

The last decade has witnessed a great growth in the number of cellular users, and
consequently there is a prominent inclination towards wireless and mobile communication …

Recent developments such as the invention of powerful turbo-decoding and irregular
designs, together with the increase in the number of potential applications to multimedia …

In this tutorial, a unified treatment of the topic of near capacity multimedia communication
systems is offered, where we focus our attention not only on source and channel coding but …

In this paper we propose a novel irregular variable length coding (IrVLC) scheme for near-
capacity joint source and channel coding. We employ a number of component variable …

This article proposes and compares the performance of three flexible and bandwidth
efficient transceivers. The terminology of Over-Complete Map** (OCM) is introduced in the …

Joint Source-Channel Coding (JSCC) is a powerful technique that allows for the efficient
transmission of information by simultaneously considering the characteristics of both the …

A common way to protect data stored in DRAM and related memory systems is through the
use of an error-correcting code such as the extended Hamming code. Traditionally, these …

The widespread development in wireless technologies and the advancements in multimedia
communication have brought about a positive impact on the performance of wireless …