We present here design techniques for trellis-coded vector quantizers
with symmetric codebooks that facilitate low-complexity quantization a
s well as partitioning into equiprobable sets for trellis coding, The
quantization performance of this coder on the independently identicall
y distributed (i.i.d.) Laplacian source matches the performance of tre
llis-based scalar-vector quantization (TB-SVQ) [1], but requires less
computational complexity.