• DocumentCode
    1167159
  • Title

    On Successive Refinement of the Binary Symmetric Markov Source

  • Author

    Lastras-Montano, Luis Alfonso ; Berger, Toby

  • Author_Institution
    IBM T. J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY
  • Volume
    52
  • Issue
    9
  • fYear
    2006
  • Firstpage
    4190
  • Lastpage
    4197
  • Abstract
    We show that for every n>2 the standard nth-order approximation Rn(D), to the rate-distortion function of the binary-symmetric Markov source (BSMS) is not successively refineable under the Hamming distortion measure in an open interval of the form D n<D<1/2=Dmax
  • Keywords
    Hamming codes; Markov processes; binary codes; rate distortion theory; source coding; BSMS; Hamming distortion measure; binary symmetric Markov source; rate-distortion function; successive refinement; Closed-form solution; Distortion measurement; Information theory; Loss measurement; Measurement standards; Performance loss; Propagation losses; Rate-distortion; Source coding; Strontium; Binary-symmetric Markov source; Markov source; critical distortion; lossy source coding; progressive transmission; rate-distortion function; scalable coding; successive refinement;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9448
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TIT.2006.878163
  • Filename
    1683934