Data Compression of Unknown Single and Correlated Binary Sources Using Punctured Turbo Codes

We consider the case of single and correlated binary sources Punctured turbo codes are used as source encoders with the objective of compressing the information to rates close to the theoretical limits No information about the sources statistics is required in the encoding process The source decoder utilizes iterative schemes and performs well even when the parameters of the sources are not known in the decoder since they can be estimated jointly with the iterative decoding process