Title : 
Bounding the average length of optimal source codes
         
        
            Author : 
Cicalese, Ferdinando ; Vaccaro, Ugo
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dipt. di Inf. ed Applicazioni, Salerno Univ., Italy
         
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
We give bounds on the average length of optimal source codes when only limited knowledge of the source symbol probability distribution is available.
         
        
            Keywords : 
probability; source coding; variable length codes; average length; discrete memoryless sources; lower bounds; optimal source codes; source coding; source symbol probability distribution; upper bounds; variable length codes; Distributed computing; Entropy; Genetic mutations; Lattices; Probability distribution; Source coding;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Information Theory, 2002. Proceedings. 2002 IEEE International Symposium on
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
0-7803-7501-7
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ISIT.2002.1023449