ErinPhase 2 Progress Report: Home Automation and Healthcare Consortium October 1, 1998 Minimum Energy Coding with Application to RF Transmission H. Harry Asada Principal investigator Kai-Yeung Siu Co-investigator Cem Erin Graduate Research Assistant Abstract Energy e cient RF transmission is accomplished by devising a novel source coding algorithm for symbols with known statistics. Throughout the history of communications, the trend has been towards faster transmission. Thus, traditional source coding aims to achieve maximum compression to optimize transmission rate. Recent popularity of wireless communication devices, however, is requesting energy e cient RF transmission techniques. In this report, we rst reformulate the source coding problem for energy e cient wireless transmission. Next, w……