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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Design and analysis of spherical codes

Abstract

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"A spherical code is a finite set of points on the surface of a multidimensional unit radius sphere. This thesis gives two constructions for large spherical codes that may be used for channel coding and for source coding. The first construction ""wraps"" a finite subset of any sphere packing onto the unit sphere in one higher dimension. The second construction is similar to the recursive construction of laminated lattices. Both constructions result in codes that are asymptotically optimal with respect to minimum distance, and the first construction can be efficiently used as part of a vector quantizer for a memoryless Gaussian source. Both constructions are structured so that codepoints may be identified without having to store the entire codebook. For several different rates, the distortion performance of the proposed quantizer is better than previously published results of quantizers with equivalent complexities."

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
Ph.D.
Level thesis:degree_level
Dissertation
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Electrical Engineering
Grantor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Year dc:date
2011

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Hamkins, Jon
Contributors dc:contributor
  • Vardy, Alexander

Subjects

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Rights

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Statement dc:rights
  • Copyright 1996 Hamkins, Jon
Language dc:language
eng

Identifiers

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Identifier
9780591198850
AAI9712295
(UMI)AAI9712295
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/20964

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citation

Hamkins, Jon. Design and analysis of spherical codes. Dissertation thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/20964