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Abstract: What makes a source-channel communication system optimal? It is shown that in order to achieve an optimal cost-distortion tradeoff, the source and the channel have to be matched in a ...

For as long as there have been generations, there have been older generations griping about younger ones — often about their seemingly weaker work ethic.

Abstract: We introduce a new algorithm for Maximum Likelihood (ML) decoding for channels with memory. The algorithm is based on the principle that the receiver rank orders noise sequences from most ...