1Exponential Golomb and Rice Error Correction Codes for Generalized Near-Capacity Joint Sourceand Channel Coding Matthew F. Brejza, Tao Wang, Wenbo Zhang, David Al-Khalili, Robert G. Maunder, Bashir M. Al-Hashimiand Lajos Hanzo Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UKEmail: {mfb2g09, tw1106, wz4g11, rm, bmah, lh}@ecs.soton.ac.ukAbstract—The recently proposed Unary Error Correction (UEC) and Elias Gamma Error Correction (EGEC) codes facilitate the ne