• DocumentCode
    1230273
  • Title

    Some asymptotic properties of the entropy of a stationary ergodic data source with applications to data compression

  • Author

    Wyner, Aaron D. ; Ziv, Jacob

  • Author_Institution
    AT&T Bell Lab., Murray Hill, NJ, USA
  • Volume
    35
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    1989
  • fDate
    11/1/1989 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1250
  • Lastpage
    1258
  • Abstract
    Theorems concerning the entropy of a stationary ergodic information source are derived and used to obtain insight into the workings of certain data-compression coding schemes, in particular the Lempel-Siv data compression algorithm
  • Keywords
    data compression; encoding; entropy; Lempel-Siv data compression algorithm; asymptotic properties; coding; data compression; entropy; information source; information theory; stationary ergodic data source; Cities and towns; Data compression; Entropy; Information theory; Probability distribution; Random sequences; Random variables; Redundancy;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9448
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/18.45281
  • Filename
    45281