Minimum expected length of fixed-to-variable lossless compression of memoryless sources

Wojciech Szpankowski, Sergio Verdú

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Abstract

Conventional wisdom states that the minimum expected length for fixed-to-variable length encoding of an n-block memoryless source with entropy H grows as nH+O(1). However, this performance is obtained under the constraint that the code assigned to the whole n-block is a prefix code. Dropping this unnecessary constraint we show that the minimum expected length grows as nH - 1/2 logn + O(1) unless the source is equiprobable.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2009 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT 2009
Pages369-373
Number of pages5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009
Event2009 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT 2009 - Seoul, Korea, Republic of
Duration: Jun 28 2009Jul 3 2009

Publication series

NameIEEE International Symposium on Information Theory - Proceedings
ISSN (Print)2157-8102

Other

Other2009 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT 2009
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CitySeoul
Period6/28/097/3/09

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Information Systems
  • Modeling and Simulation
  • Applied Mathematics

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