Delay-Constrained Source Coding for a Peak Distortion Measure

We consider the problem of lossy source coding under a peak distortion measure in which source symbols are revealed to the encoder in real time and need to be reconstructed by the decoder within a fixed end-to-end delay. We investigate the tradeoff between end-to-end delay and the probability of distortion violation. As in the lossless case, the delay-constrained error (distortion-violation) exponent is generally much higher than the fixed-block coding case.