Abstract The problem of designing a multiple description vector quantizer with lattice codebook \Lambda is considered. A general solution is given to a labeling problem which plays a crucial role in the design of such quantizers. Numerical performance resu
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Figure5:ExampletoillustratethemechanicsofthelabelingforthehexagonallatticeA2.WenowpresentanexampleofalabelingfunctionwithareuseindexN=31.Thefollowingarethestepsinconstructingthelabelingfunction.1.Findasublatticewithindexequaltothereuseindex.