Minimum Expected Length of Fixed-to-Variable Lossless Compression Without Prefix Constraints
Minimum Expected Length of Fixed-to-Variable Lossless Compression Without Prefix Constraints
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无前缀约束的固定到可变无损压缩的最小预期长度
DOI:
10.1109/tit.2011.2145590
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发表时间:
2011
影响因子:
2.5
通讯作者:
S. Verdú
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作者:
W. Szpankowski;S. Verdú
The minimum expected length for fixed-to-variable length encoding of an n-block memoryless source with entropy H grows as nH + O(1), where the term O(1) lies between 0 and 1. However, this well-known performance is obtained under the implicit constraint that the code assigned to the whole n-block is a prefix code. Dropping the prefix constraint, which is rarely necessary at the block level, we show that the minimum expected length for a finite-alphabet memoryless source with known distribution grows as nH-1/2 log n + O(1) unless the source is equiprobable. We also refine this result up to o(1) for those memoryless sources whose log probabilities do not reside on a lattice.