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Part VII

Future Work

This book starts from information theory. I would like to end by discussing the de-

velopments of information theory in future. Although most of our research presented

in this book is technical and solution-oriented, the fundamental problems behind

them are closely related to information theory. Shannon’s information theory started

from the end-to-end telegraph and has been developed for more than 60 years. With

the advanced compression and communication technologies presented in this book, it

is a right time to discuss the possible theoretical breakthrough in information theory.

The contents presented in this part are our thoughts that we are strenuously working

on or plan to do soon. I hope that we can present some solid ...