• DocumentCode
    112216
  • Title

    Tight Bounds for Symmetric Divergence Measures and a Refined Bound for Lossless Source Coding

  • Author

    Sason, Igal

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Technion - Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa, Israel
  • Volume
    61
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    Feb. 2015
  • Firstpage
    701
  • Lastpage
    707
  • Abstract
    Tight bounds for several symmetric divergence measures are derived in terms of the total variation distance. It is shown that each of these bounds is attained by a pair of two- or three-element probability distributions. An application of these bounds for lossless source coding is provided, refining and improving a certain bound by Csiszár. Another application of these bounds has been recently introduced by Yardi et al. for channel-code detection.
  • Keywords
    channel coding; source coding; Csiszár; channel code detection; lossless source coding; probability distributions; symmetric divergence measurement; tight bounds; total variation distance; Convex functions; Digital TV; Entropy; Loss measurement; Probability distribution; Source coding; Upper bound; $f$ -divergence; Bhattacharyya distance; Chernoff information; Jeffreys’ divergence; f-divergence; jeffreys??? divergence; lossless source coding; total variation distance;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9448
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TIT.2014.2387065
  • Filename
    7000552