The paper “Multi-Class Source-Channel Coding” by  I. E. Bocharova, A. Guillen i Fabregas, B. D. Kudryashov, A. Martinez, A. Tauste Campo and G. Vazquez-Vilar has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. Abstract: This paper studies an almost-lossless source-channel coding scheme in which source messages are assigned to different classes and encoded with…

The following group members will be presenting their work at the upcoming 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory Tobias Koch and Gonzalo Vazquez-Vilar, «A General Rate-Distortion Converse Bound for Entropy-Constrained Scalar Quantization” Markus Stinner (TUM), Luca Barletta (Politecnico di Milano) and Pablo M. Olmos, «Finite-Length Scaling Based on Belief Propagation for Spatially Coupled LDPC…

A new paper from the group has been accepted for publication The paper “The Shannon lower bound is asymptotically tight” by T. Koch has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. Abstract: The Shannon lower bound is one of the few lower bounds on the rate-distortion function that holds for a…

A new paper from the group has been accepted for publication The paper “Layered Adaptive Importance Sampling” by L. Martino, V. Elvira, D. Luengo, and J. Corander has been accepted for publication in Statistics and Computing. Abstract: Monte Carlo methods represent the «de facto» standard for approximating complicated integrals involving multidimensional target distributions. In order to generate random realizations from…

A new paper from the group has been accepted for publication The paper «Short-Packet Communications over Multiple-Antenna Rayleigh-Fading Channels» by Giuseppe Durisi, Tobias Koch, Johan Östman, Yury Polyanskiy, and Wei Yang has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Communications. Abtract: Motivated by the current interest in ultra-reliable, low-latency, machine-type communication systems, we…