Optimizing the encoder/decoder structures in a discrete communication system

The problem of optimizing the structure of the encoder/decoder pair in a discrete communication system (with an additive distortion measure) is expressed in terms of a bilinear programming problem (BLP Problem). An efficient method, based on the simplex search in conjunction with the generalized upper bounding technique is presented for the solution. The special features of the problem are exploited to reduce the computational complexity of the proposed algorithm.