CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF A COMBINED HUFFMAN AND CONVOLUTIONAL CODING SCHEME
In this paper, a critical analysis of the joint source channel coding scheme proposed by Honary et al.1 is given. We show mathematically that although the algorithm leads to a reduction in the overall number of decoding states it increases both the time and space complexity of the decoding process. Moreover, the hardware complexity of the proposed scheme is also analyzed and it is observed that the joint decoding algorithm is in the first place extremely complex to implement and secondly, it significantly increases the number of components required, thereby increasing the power consumption. A mathematical proof that the joint decoding scheme has the same error performance as a separate scheme is also given. Finally, the simulation results show that the joint decoding scheme takes a significantly greater time to decode than a separate scheme, for the same error performance.