Arıkan, ErdalMerhav, N.2016-02-082016-02-081997-06-07http://hdl.handle.net/11693/27717Date of Conference: 29 June-4 July 1997Conference name: Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information TheoryWe consider the joint source-channel guessing problem, define measures of optimum performance, and give single-letter characterizations. As an application, sequential decoding is considered.EnglishCommunication channels (information theory)FunctionsMathematical modelsProbabilityJoint source channel codingSignal encodingConference Paper10.1109/ISIT.1997.613077