Near-Capacity H.264 Multimedia Communications Using Iterative Joint Source-Channel Decoding

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 also on their iterative decoding and transmission schemes. There is a paucity of up-to-date surveys and review articles on the unified treatment of the topic of near capacity multimedia communication systems using iterative detection aided joint source-channel decoding employing sophisticated transmission techniques - even though there is a plethora of papers on both iterative detection and video telephony. Hence this paper aims to fill the related gap in the literature.